Category: World

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s letter to the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres — about India’s act of aggression against Pakistan — was circulated as a document in the UN Security Council at Pakistan’s request. Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi shared this information on Wednesday via Twitter. Maleeha Lodhi@LodhiMaleeha Our Foreign Minister’s […]

Ryan Reynolds won us over as a talking Pikachu in the first Detective Pikachu movie. With only the protagonist being able to understand him, and him being the opposite of the cute pokemon, the film was set to have its fair share of humour along with an interesting plot. But looks like Detective Pikachu is not done getting us […]

The Afghan Taliban and Washington’s peace envoy are close to reaching an agreement on US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, a spokesman for the insurgents said on Tuesday amid a new round of talks with the United States. Suhail Shaheen, the spokesman, said the deal will also include guarantees that Afghanistan will not be used again […]

North Korea head Kim Jong Un arrived in Hanoi to throngs of cheering, flag-waving crowds on Tuesday, on the eve of a second summit with United States President Donald Trump as the world is closely watching for tangible progress over North Korea’s nuclear programme. After a historic initial meeting in Singapore in June that produced […]

China on Tuesday urged India and Pakistan to “exercise restraint” after the Inter-Services Public Relations said that Indian warplanes violated the Line of Control (LoC) last night and released their payload in Muzaffarabad sector of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). “We hope that both India and Pakistan can exercise restraint and adopt actions that will help […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who was the lead negotiator in a landmark 2015 nuclear deal with major powers, has abruptly tendered his resignation, although there was no sign President Hassan Rouhani had accepted it. Zarif offered an apology for his “shortcomings” in the unexpected message on Instagram on Monday, with prominent members of […]

TEHRAN: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday on his first visit to the Islamic republic since the start of the Syrian conflict. During the meeting, Assad expressed his gratitude to Iran for all that it has done for Syria during the conflict, according to the Syrian presidency’s account […]

THE HAGUE: Britain should quickly give up control of the Chagos archipelago, the Indian Ocean islands that house the secretive US airbase at Diego Garcia but are claimed by Mauritius, the International Court of Justice said on Monday. Judges in The Hague said in a legal “advisory opinion” on a decades-old dispute that Britain had […]

Indian military planes violated the Line of Control (LoC), intruding from the Muzaffarabad sector, Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations Major-General Asif Ghafoor said on his official Twitter account early on Tuesday. Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor ✔@OfficialDGISPR Payload of hastily escaping Indian aircrafts fell in open. 26.8K 8:41 AM – Feb 26, 2019 18.2K people are talking […]

United States envoy Zalmay Khalilzad on Monday thanked Pakistan for facilitating the travel of Taliban leaders to Qatar, where the group’s senior leaders will hold another round of peace talks starting today as Washington intensifies efforts to find a negotiated solution to Afghanistan’s 17-year war, it’s longest. Khalilzad’s tweet appreciating Pakistan’s help in this “significant moment” comes […]