RAWALPINDI – The top military leadership on Tuesday resolved that perpetrators of the suicide blast in Peshawar, which has claimed at least 100 lives, will be brought to exemplary justice. The resolve was expressed in the 255th Corps Commanders’ Conference held at GHQ and it was presided over ...

ISLAMABAD – The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday ruled out any backdoor diplomacy brokered by the United Arab Emirates between Pakistan and India. At a weekly news briefing in Islamabad, Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch dismissed any such development taking place. “At this ...

Prominent Indian journalist Rana Ayyub has deplored that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi whose hands are stained with the blood of 2,000 Muslims in Gujarat has taken away the presidency of G-20. Rana Ayyub who received the prestigious John Aubuchon award conferred on her by the National Press ...

Indians lambasted the Prime Minister Modi-led BJP government for its policies and declared it a ‘sick monster’ while the soldiers of the country have also lost their faith in it. According to the 24News HD TV channel, Trinamool Congress (TMC) spokesperson Saket Gokhale said on Monday that to ...

GENEVA – Despite Tehran's opposition, the UN on Tuesday named a panel of three women to lead a rights investigation into Iran’s violent crackdown on women-led protests, which have rocked the Islamic republic for more than three months now. Bangladesh Supreme Court lawyer Sara Hossain, ...

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial has said that there were several flaws in the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) law as it was per law to detain anyone for 90 days just on the basis of the accusation. A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Umar ...

A US judge dismissed Tuesday a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his alleged role in the 2018 murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Washington federal judge John Bates accepted a US government's stance that Prince Mohammed, who was designated prime ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia this week, meeting the king and de facto ruler of the world’s biggest oil exporter, Saudi state media reported on Tuesday. Xi, head of the world’s number-two economy, will also attend a summit with rulers from the ...

Indonesia's parliament approved Tuesday legislation that would outlaw pre-marital sex while making other sweeping changes to the criminal code -- a move critics deemed as a setback to the country's freedoms. After the controversial new criminal code received the majority of votes from lawmakers ...

PTI leader and former federal minister Senator Azam Swati on Monday moved to Islamabad High Court challenging registration of cases against him by the Federal Investigation Agency. Swati filed a petition in the high court against filing of cases against him. It is stated in the petition that the ...