KABUL – Amid the deadly clashes between the Afghan armed forces and Taliban fighters in the war-torn country, the supreme leader of the Taliban Hibatullah Akhundzada said he ‘strenuously favours’ a political settlement to the ongoing conflict. Soon after a senior delegation of the Afghan ...

Srinagar: Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred two Kashmiri youth in Handwara area of Kupwara district in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. According to details, the troops martyred the youth during a cordon and search operation at Kralgund in Handwara. The ...

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan has shot down a request from an American intelligence agency for cross-border counterterrorism missions. During an interview with HBO Axios’s Jonathan Swan that due to air on Sunday, the premier reiterated the country’s stance on the use of ...

Iranians voted in a presidential election on Friday amid concerns over a low turnout with the conservative head of the judiciary, Ebrahim Raisi, widely seen as the frontrunner. Nearly 60 million eligible voters in Iran will decide the fate of four candidates in the fray to succeed President ...

WASHINGTON — The rapid U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan link is creating intense pressure on the C.I.A. to find new ways to gather intelligence and carry out counterterrorism strikes in the country, but the agency has few good options. The C.I.A., which has been at the heart of the ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has reaffirmed its commitment to play its due role in combating climate crisis, protecting biological diversity and restoring ecosystem. In a statement today, Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhari said hosting of World Environment Day 2021 in Islamabad is ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that Pakistan is pushing for a political settlement in Afghanistan before foreign troops leave later this year, to reduce the risk of civil war in its western neighbour. “There is a lot of fear right now in Pakistan and I assure you that we ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has said that the withdrawal of NATO and US troops from Afghanistan should be a peaceful transition. The prime minister said while addressing the concluding session of the General Conference of the Parliamentary Assembly of Economic ...

Kyrgyzstan link said Monday it had detained a former prime minister over corruption at the country's largest gold link mine, the centre of a legal dispute with Canadian firm Centerra. The giant Kumtor gold link mine is the Central Asian country's largest foreign investment project and accounts ...

Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin link has said there will be no increase link in power tariff link, vowing that an inclusive and sustainable growth over a long period of time is his government’s policy. Addressing a budget webinar in Islamabad on Sunday, the finance minister said when the PTI ...