05-02-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report DUBAI/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistani former President Pervez Musharraf has died at a hospital in Dubai after a prolonged illness, military sources confirmed to media on Sunday. He was 79. Musharraf, a four-star general, ruled Pakistan for nearly a decade after seizing power in a …

05-02-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: A US research firm’s allegations of fraud against billionaire Gautam Adani’s Business Empire have sparked a political row in India. Opposition leaders stalled the functioning of parliament for a second straight day on Friday as they demanded an investigation into the claims. The research firm …

05-02-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has banned Wikipedia after threatening the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia over what it has labelled “sacrilegious content”, the Wikimedia Foundation announced on Saturday. Social media giants Facebook and YouTube have also been blocked in the past by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority over …

05-02-2023 OTTAWA: A “generational” Arctic blast brought dangerously cold temperatures to swaths of the northeastern United States and Canada on Saturday, with forecasters warning that frostbite could occur in just five minutes. Atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire state, the wind-chill factor reached -78 degrees Celsius (-108 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight, …

05-02-2023 KUALA LUMPUR: A senior Malaysian official said on Friday that Islamophobia must be recognized as a crime and demanded that Muslim nations respond strongly to cases involving the desecration of the Holy Quran. “Anything that is Islamophobic can actually be regarded as something which is criminal in nature. So, …

05-02-2023 TEHRAN: Iran and the Western parties to its 2015 nuclear deal have once more clashed over the country’s nuclear program, this time after a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the sensitive Fordow uranium enrichment site. The global nuclear watchdog said in a confidential report on …

05-02-2023 TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has dismissed one of his secretaries for homophobic comments that the prime minister called “outrageous”. Kishida said the remarks by Masayoshi Arai, in which he said he “doesn’t even want to look at” married same-sex couples, were “outrageous” and “incompatible” with an inclusive …

05-02-2023 JUBA: Pope Francis has met South Sudanese children displaced by conflict and heard of the hardships of their lives in camps, telling them they would build a better future for the world’s newest country by replacing ethnic hatred with forgiveness. The pope was visiting South Sudan with Archbishop of …

05-02-2023 JERUSALEM: Tens of thousands of Israelis have gathered for a fifth week of protests against controversial judicial changes proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Protesters in the central city of Tel Aviv braved heavy rain for Saturday’s protest, carrying blue and white Israeli flags and chanting slogans against …

05-02-2023 WASHINGTON: The United States military has shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina, a week after it entered US airspace and triggered a dramatic spying saga that worsened relations between Beijing and Washington. President Joe Biden said on Saturday that he had issued …