International

10-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE/ KARACHI: Electricity is gradually being restored in some areas of Pakistan following a huge power cut across the country, with every city reporting outages. Homes nationwide were suddenly plunged into darkness from about midnight. Officials appealed for calm but warned that …

10-01-2021 JAKARTA: Indonesian divers on Sunday located parts of the wreckage of a Boeing 737-500 at a depth of 23 meters (75 feet) in the Java Sea, a day after the aircraft with 62 people onboard crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta. “We received reports from the diver team that …

09-01-2021 WASHINGTON: House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she spoke to the United States’ top general about taking precautions to prevent an “unhinged” President Donald Trump from accessing nuclear launch codes in the final days of his term. Pelosi’s statement came just before congressional Democrats began a conference …

09-01-2021 JAKARTA: A Sriwijaya Air plane reportedly carrying more than 60 people lost contact after taking off from the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Saturday. A statement released by the budget airline said the Boeing 737-500 was on an estimated 90-minute flight from Jakarta to Pontianak, the capital of West Kalimantan …

09-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MACH/ QUETTA/ ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE/ PEWHAWAR/ KARACHI: In a late night development, much to the relief of citizens across Pakistan that had been waiting to see a speedy redressal of the grievances of the Hazara community, it was announced that the 10 …

08-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ QUETTA/ MACH: The Prime Minister (PM) of Pakistan, Imran Khan announced on Friday that he will not be blackmailed into coming to Quetta and would visit the mourners, including women and children, sitting along with bodies of 11 Shia martyrs in extreme …

08-01-2021 WASHINGTON: Democratic leaders have called for Donald Trump to be removed from office after a group of his supporters violently stormed the Capitol. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi directly accused President Donald Trump of inciting “armed insurrection” against the United States. “This president has committed an unspeakable assault …

08-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Reports MACH/ QUETTA/ KARACHI/ PESHAWAR/ LAHORE/ ISLAMABAD: Millions of Shia Muslims’ sit-ins against the Machh massacre continued for the sixth day on Friday in Pakistan over hundreds of different places of big and small cities and towns, the leadership of opposition parties converged on …

07-01-2021 WASHINGTON: Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by a historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil. His victory came after more than three days of uncertainty as …

07-01-2021 WASHINGTON: Unprecedented scenes of mob violence unfolded in Washington on Wednesday in what observers described as an attack striking at the very heart of American democracy. Encouraged by US President Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric regarding the validity of the 2020 US election results, armed mobs broke into the United …