New Delhi: Two days after the Special Assistant to Prime Minister Imran Khan on national security revealed Indian feelers for bilateral talks, New Delhi described the claim as fictitious on Thursday. In an interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire on Tuesday, Moeed Yusuf, the prime minister’s Special Assistant, had claimed that Pakistan had got messages in the “past […]
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GENEVA: Sentencing rapists to death, as Bangladesh did on Thursday, is not an appropriate punishment even for such a heinous crime, the UN rights chief said. “Tempting as it may be to impose draconian punishments on those who carry out such monstrous acts, we must not allow ourselves to commit further violations,” Michelle Bachelet said […]
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The Foreign Office on Monday rejected Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s “unfounded insinuations” that Pakistan and China were deliberately creating border disputes with India. “It is India that not only creates disputes with neighbours but also runs away from peacefully resolving them,” an FO press release said. The FO further said that Singh’s remarks “demonstrate […]
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DUBAI: The Indian Premier League (IPL) has launched an investigation after one of the players in this year’s tournament in the United Arab Emirates reported being approached for possible corruption, the league’s integrity chief said on Sunday. The world’s richest cricket league, long plagued by corruption, is in its third week and is being played […]
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ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in a letter to the president of the UN Security Council has highlighted the threats to peace from Indian actions in occupied Kashmir. Foreign Office spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri at the weekly media briefing on Thursday said the latest letter to the UNSC president was “part of Pakistan’s efforts […]
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An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted Hindu nationalist leaders, including former deputy prime minister Lal Krishna Advani, in a case over the demolition of a mosque at a disputed site 28 years ago, citing a lack of evidence. The demolition sparked nationwide riots that killed more than 3,000 people in a decades-long dispute that has […]
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An emotional Rashid Khan dedicated his man-of-the-match performance to his mother, who died earlier this year, after he bowled Sunrisers Hyderabad to their first win of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The Afghan leg-spinner took 3-14 from his four overs to restrict Delhi Capitals to 147 for seven in their chase of 163, handing Hyderabad […]
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TAIPEI: The dispute over international organisations referring to Taiwan as Chinese has moved from wild bird conservation to climate change, after a global alliance of mayors began listing Taiwanese cities as belonging to China on its website. China has ramped up pressure on international groups and companies to refer to democratic, self-ruled Taiwan as being […]
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At least 10 people were killed and up to 25 were feared trapped after a three-storey residential building collapsed before dawn on Monday in western India, officials said. The accident in the city of Bhiwandi, which neighbours India’s financial capital Mumbai, occurred around 3:40am, local authorities said. “Ten people have died, we have rescued 11 […]
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Senior Indian and Chinese military commanders are holding talks on Monday aimed at resolving a tense months-long standoff along their disputed border in the mountainous Ladakh region. Details of the talks, held on the Chinese side in the Moldo area facing the Indian-controlled Ladakh region, weren’t immediately disclosed. For the first time, a senior Indian […]
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