A migrant rights group reported that security authorities in eastern Libya conducted an overnight raid, resulting in the liberation of at least 385 Pakistani migrants who were being held captive in trafficking warehouses. The group, Al-Abreen, which provides assistance to migrants in ...

New evidence have cast doubt on the Greek coastguard’s account of Wednesday’s migrant shipwreck in which hundreds including scores of Pakistanis are feared to have dies. According to a BBC investigative report, analysis of the movement of other ships in the area suggests the overcrowded ...

ISLAMABAD/ATHENS – Greece shipwreck incident continues to unfold and a report by a British publication claimed that Pakistanis on board the ill-fated vessel were singled out and forced below deck. In its report, *The Observer* claimed that people with certain backgrounds, particularly ...

Two people were badly injured and another was missing after a firefighting link link with four crew aboard crashed into the sea off Greece link on Wednesday, the coastguard and fire service said. "The Romanian pilot of the helicopter link found safe and sound by the Greek coastguard off Samos and ...

*Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday blamed recent protests in Iran on foreign “enemies” seeking to overthrow the government in the Islamic Republic.* Also, he said, enemies were waging a “psychological war” against Iran by accusing it of piracy for seizing two Greek ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has named the newly discovered immensely mutated and more transmissible strain of COVID-19 ‘Omicrom’, and dubbed it a “variant of concern” on Friday. WHO’s technical lead on COVID-19 Maria Van Kerkhove said in a video on Twitter that, “Omicron, ...

Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has said that Pakistan remains committed to cooperate with its international partners for peace in the region and ensuring a stable and prosperous future for Afghan people. Talking to Greek Ambassador to Pakistan Andreas Papastavrou in Rawalpindi on ...

*LONDON - Thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians in major European cities including London, Berlin, Madrid and Paris, as Israel continued the worst violence in years against Palestinians in Gaza.* In London, several thousand protesters carrying placards reading "Stop Bombing ...

Greece and France signed a 2.5-billion-euro ($3 billion) warplane deal on Monday as part of a plans to upgrade Greece’s armed force in response to Turkish challenges in the eastern Mediterranean. The deal will see Greece buying 18 Rafale jets link, 12 of them used, made by French firm Dassault ...

*A bomb blast struck a World War I commemoration attended by Western diplomats in the Saudi city of Jeddah Wednesday, leaving at least two people wounded in the second assault on diplomatic missions in recent weeks, officials said.* The attack at a non-Muslim cemetery comes less than a month ...