International

15-09-2022 India has lodged a protest with the US for finalizing a deal to provide a $450-million sustenance package for Pakistan’s F-16 fleet. On September 14, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh talked to US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin over the phone and conveyed his country’s concerns to the US official. …

15-09-2022 TORONTO: Community tensions have risen in Canada’s multicultural district of Brompton after the police arrested an Indo-Canadian man for tearing Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale’s banner in the city of Caledon, Ontario, ahead of the September 18 voting for the Khalistan Referendum. Thirty-eight years after he was killed in …

15-09-2022 Bureau Report MOSCOW/ ISLAMABAD: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that pipeline gas supplies to Pakistan are possible, and that part of the necessary infrastructure is already in place, Russian state-owned news agency RIA reported. President Putin and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met today on the sidelines …

15-09-2022 NEW YORK: Billionaire Elon Musk has claimed on Twitter that his tweets are being suppressed. Musk, who is fighting a legal battle with the microblogging platform even tagged Twitter and its CEO Parag Agarwal to resolve the issue. The Tesla CEO who has 105.6 million followers on Twitter realised …

15-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban are “looking into” a video circulating on social media that appears to show its fighters executing captured members of an anti-Taliban Afghan insurgent group (mostly Shia Muslims), a government spokesman said Wednesday. The National Resistance Front (NRF), a nascent …

15-09-2022 SHANGHAI: All passenger flights at Shanghai’s two international airports have been cancelled, the airport operator said Wednesday, as Typhoon Muifa nears landfall on China’s densely populated east coast. The storm is expected to make landfall at around 7:00 pm on Wednesday (1100 GMT) state broadcaster CCTV reported, threatening to …

14-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ UNITED NATIONS/ ISLAMABAD: Taliban authorities on Tuesday condemned UN accusations that they are violating the rights of women to work in Afghanistan, insisting thousands are employed in the country’s public sector but Sharafuddin Sharaf, chief of staff at the ministry of labour …

14-09-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian President Droupadi Murmu will be visiting London from September 17-19 to attend the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and offer condolences on behalf of the Government of India. Queen Elizabeth II, the former head of state of the United Kingdom and Head of …

14-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI/ WASHINGTON: The United States has expressed concern over press freedom in Pakistan after a television channel considered to be sympathetic towards former Prime Minister Imran Khan was briefly blocked by the government. “We are concerned that media and content restrictions, as …

14-09-2022 BISHKEK/ DUSHANBE: Kyrgyz and Tajik border guards have exchanged fire after a dispute over the border between the two Central Asian nations, officials on both sides said. The clash on Wednesday, which took place on the eve of a regional security body meeting and against the background of fighting …