Dubai/IBNS: Former Pakistan President and chief of the country's Army staff Pervez Musharraf died at the American Hospital in UAE's Dubai on Sunday after a prolonged illness. He was 79.
Kiev: Dozens of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have been freed following the latest prisoner swap, officials from both sides confirmed on Saturday.
Beijing/UNI: China expressed strong dissatisfaction and opposition towards the US use of force to attack a Chinese civilian 'unmanned' airship, the country's Foreign Ministry said Sunday in a statement.
Washington DC/IBNS: The United States Saturday shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the country's east coast, the Pentagon said.
Istanbul: Turkey's flag carrier Turkish Airlines said on Saturday that it had canceled 238 flights scheduled for Sunday and Monday due to the snowfall expected in Istanbul.
Washington: US President Joe Biden has broken his silence about the alleged Chinese spy balloon spotted above the United States earlier this week, pledging to "take care of it."
Kabul: At least two people were injured in a car explosion in Kabul's second district on Saturday, Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said.
Islamabad: A prominent minister of the former PM Imran Khan-led government has claimed that the security situation in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) is deteriorating rapidly.
Kabul: Afghanistan's Taliban government has detained a professor who tore up his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees on live TV in protest against a ban on Afghan women’s education in the country.
Peshawar: A memo circulated by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police's special branch has revealed that over 100,000 junior ranks are considering resigning en masse if the recent attack on the mosque wasn’t not properly investigated, media reports said.
Lahore: Pakistan's Punjab Home Department has directed Chinese nationals, who are living in the province or working with private companies, to hire private security companies of A category for their security, media reports said.
Islamabad: PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry on Thursday said the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan could not be eliminated without the support of the Afghanistan government.
Islamabad: PTI chief Imran Khan has sought the president's intervention to stop the “brazen interference of intelligence agencies” in politics, media reports said on Saturday.
Thimpu: Bhutan is on its way to graduate from the Least Developed Countries (LDC) status by June 2023, media reports said on Saturday.
Islamabad: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has banned popular website Wikipedia in the country for not “blocking/removing sacrilegious content” within the 48-hour deadline given to the website, media reports said on Saturday.
The UN child rights committee on Friday commended Switzerland for swiftly granting asylum to four Kurdish children and their mother, who faced deportation after fleeing Syria, adding that it showed how controversial decisions could be effectively appealed.
Islamabad/IBNS: A Pakistan leader has stirred a row with his bizarre solution to the country's economic crisis that has kept the South Asian nation on an edge, media reports said.
New York: Two UN aid convoys have reached communities with acute needs near the contact line in Ukraine’s war-shattered east this week, relief coordinators reported on Friday.
New York: As violence mounts between Israelis and Palestinians, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday called for an end to the “illogic of escalation”, appealing for leaders to urgently work to resolve their decades-long conflict.
Naypyidaw: Myanmar's military junta has been selling Rakhine’s natural gas to China and it has sold over USD 1.43 billion worth of it in 2022, media reports said.
Islamabad: Pakistani police have detained more than 20 Afghan refugees in Islamabad city on Friday, media reports said.
Berlin: After years of investigations, German police in Bavaria have clamped down on an international child pornography ring and shut down three darknet platforms.
Washington: Former US President Donald Trump will speak at the annual Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, at the beginning of March, the organization announced in a press release.
Stockholm: Finland has reiterated its commitment to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) together with Sweden, visiting Prime Minister Sanna Marin said when she met her Swedish counterpart here on Thursday.
Paris: France's helicopter carrier Dixmude will participate in military drills in the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean alongside ships of the Japanese maritime self-defense forces and the Australian, Indian and US navies, media reported on Friday.
Kiev: An air raid alert was sounded in all regions of Ukraine, including the capital city Kiev, according to the online map of the Ukrainian Digital Ministry updated on Friday.
Pyongyang: North Korea ratified a law on the protection of "state secret" at a plenary meeting oft the its parliament to safeguard national security and develop the socialist system in the country, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Friday.
Toronto/IBNS: After January’s warmer-than-normal temperature, February is off to a frigid start in parts of Ontario due to the polar vortex descending over the province this week and Toronto to see some of the coldest weather in years, Environment Canada reported.
Jammu: After Joshimath in Uttarakhand, as many as 21 structures have developed cracks due to "sinking" of land while the families have been shifted to the safer locations in Thathri tehsil of Doda district in Jammu and Kashmir, an official said on Friday.
Islamabad: The Pakistani Rupee plunged further on Friday to touch Rs 276.58 per dollar in the interbank market, media reports said on Fridayl
