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24-09-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: After taking multiple economic hits in his household, Gurvinder Singh, a 47-year-old farmer in Gurdaspur, in India’s Punjab state, took a million-rupee loan ($11,000) from a private lender to marry off his eldest daughter. He saved a portion of that and used it …

ISLAMABAD – The Senate Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development was informed on Tuesday that reports claiming 40,000 Pakistani pilgrims had gone missing in Iraq were baseless and exaggerated. Chairing the committee meeting, Senator Zeeshan Khanzada heard a detailed clarification from Senator Raja Nasir Abbas, who dismissed …

23-09-2025 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened “bad things” would happen to Afghanistan if it does not give back control of the Bagram air base to the United States, and declined to rule out sending in troops to retake it. “If Afghanistan doesn’t give Bagram Airbase back to …

Abbas Jaffri PMI Men below 50 will be eligible to apply if they are accompanied by their families. Iraqi authorities have issued new regulations for pilgrims visiting the country’s sacred religious sites, imposing age-related conditions for visa issuance. According to the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony’s spokesperson, Muhammad …

23-09-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces have killed 91 Palestinians in Gaza in a single day, according to medics, including family members of a prominent doctor and four people on board a truck fleeing northern Gaza City. The killings on Saturday came as Israeli forces continue to press on with their …

23-09-2025 TEHRAN: Iran’s top security body has warned that action by France, Germany and the United Kingdom to reimpose international sanctions will “effectively suspend” its cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog. The warning from the Supreme National Security Council came on Saturday, a day after the United Nations Security …

23-09-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Imposing a new $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visa applications could disrupt the global operations of Indian technology services companies that deploy skilled professionals to the United States, India’s IT industry body Nasscom said on Saturday. The White House announced the new fee on Friday, …

23-09-2025 LONDON: Sir Keir Starmer is expected to announce the UK’s recognition of a Palestinian state in a statement on Sunday afternoon. The prime minister said in July that the UK would shift its position unless Israel met several conditions, including agreeing to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and …

23-09-2025 THE HAGUE: Dutch police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse violent anti-immigration protesters in The Hague on Saturday. Thirty people were arrested and two officers injured as large groups of people clashed with police, with some throwing rocks and bottles. Around 1,500 people blocked a highway crossing …

23-09-2025 WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has told journalists they must agree not to disclose unauthorized information or else risk losing access to the building. The change is among a number of new restrictions, which also seek to impose limits on the movement of journalists within the facility, which is home to …