07-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report RIYADH/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has started a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia in an effort to reset relations after tensions between the longtime allies in recent years. Khan’s arrival in Riyadh on Friday after an invitation from Saudi Crown …
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07-05-2021 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says there is no plan at this point to shoot down the remnants of a large Chinese rocket expected to plunge back through the atmosphere this weekend. The Long March 5B rocket blasted off from China’s Hainan island on April 29, carrying …
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07-05-2021 LONDON/ BERLIN/ PARIS: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain urged Israel to halt settlement-building in the occupied West Bank. The joint statement on Thursday came as tensions mounted in occupied East Jerusalem ahead of a hearing that could see Palestinian families forcibly displaced from Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood where …
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07-05-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Pakistan’s role in ending the Afghan war and working on a peace agreement is important, says US President Joe Biden. President Biden spoke with Democrat leaders on completing 100 days in government. From Pakistan, he spoke to Tahir Javed, a Pakistan-born US …
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07-05-2021 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ NEW DELHI: Australia will resume repatriation flights for citizens in India after a controversial ban on arrivals from the country ends on 15 May. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has faced criticism for failing to help citizens trapped in the COVID-ravaged nation. The ban sparked further anger …
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06-05-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket board is in hot waters as it would be losing up to $270 million in revenue after the Indian Premier League (IPL) was postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis in the country, a senior official told media on Wednesday. The world’s …
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06-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ KANDAHAR/ ISLAMABAD: The fifth Shia TV journalist was shot dead in Afghanistan during this year while over 1600 absolute innocent Shia-Muslims (most of them belong with Shia Hazara Community) have been martyred since 01st January 2021 until today (06-05-2021) exactly the same …
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06-05-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has reported more than 400,000 coronavirus infections over the last 24 hours, while the number of dead from the virus rose to a record 3,980. The South Asian nation’s tally has surged past 21 million cases, boosted by a record 432,685 new infections. The …
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06-05-2021 BY SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ LONDON/ BRELIN: “Pakistanis” have not only been running the world since a long but also the entire development, modernization and advancement in all fields especially in education, medicine, invention, literature, science, human rights, politics and general awareness and civic sense …
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06-05-2021 LONDON: The Group of Seven has scolded China and Russia, casting the Kremlin as malicious and Beijing as a bully, but beyond words, there were few concrete steps aside from expressing support for Taiwan and Ukraine. Founded in 1975 as a forum for the West’s richest nations to discuss …
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