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The UN General Assembly on Wednesday adopted by a strong majority of 120 countries an Arab-backed resolution condemning Israel for Palestinian deaths in Gaza and rejected a US bid to put the blame on Hamas. At least 129 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire during protests near the...

Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat has said that peace should be given a chance in Indian occupied Kashmir (IoK), according to Indian media reports. In an exclusive conversation with The Economic Times, General Rawat stated that he supports dialogue to solve the ongoing problems in IoK...

If you and I had a discussion on the rights and obligations of tenants and landlords in Pakistan, chances are that you, fed on a diet of pop culture and questionable films, would conjure up the image of landlords as malevolent, pot-bellied tyrants, evicting poor, defenseless tenants on the...

Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar remarked on Tuesday that former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf should show how brave he is by returning to the country as the obstacles in his path have been removed. A three-member bench of the apex court’s Lahore Registry, headed by...

I think real MVPs were Nawaz and Shadab. They put brakes on Scotland, otherwise they were looking good to win the match. Also what happened to Aamir? He got beat.

Top PPP, PPP-W and MMA leaders in fray for Larkana seats Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and his younger sister, Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari, filed their nomination papers for the NA-200 Larkana-I seat while Maulana Rashid Mehmood Soomro of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal...

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday requested the Ministry of Interior to place former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, daughter Maryam Nawaz, and son-in-law Capt (retd) Safdar's names on the Exit Control List (ECL). This was NAB's second letter on the matter. It also requested the...

COAS leaves for Kabul to meet President Ashraf Ghani Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday left for Kabul to meet President Ashraf Ghani, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). The invitation was extended by the Afghan president, DG ISPR Major...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his commitment to "complete denuclearisation of Korean Peninsula", in a joint agreement signed with US President Donald Trump Tuesday. The text made no mention of US demands for "complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation" -- jargon for...

Afghan security forces on Sunday seized 156 sacks of ammonium nitrate, widely used in making explosives, from the back of a vegetable truck crossing at the Torkham border crossing, an official said, in one of the biggest such finds. Intelligence officers found nearly eight tonnes of the...

Three former Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) legislators joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Sunday, Dunya News reported. According to details, former MNA of the PML-N from Chiniot Ghulam Muhammad Lali met PTI chief Imran Khan at his Bani Gala residence and announced his joining the...

Pakistan and China have played a key role in brokering the ceasefire deal between the Afghan government and the Taliban on Eid, officials familiar with the development disclosed on Sunday On Saturday, the Afghan Taliban announced a three-day ceasefire over Eidul Fitr, the first such truce by...

A Frenchman has committed suicide by throwing himself off the roof of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Saudi and French officials said Saturday. "A foreigner threw himself from the roof of the Grand Mosque in Makkah" to the courtyard below, "resulting in his instant death", Saudi police told the...

Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar directed on Sunday the accountability court to announce decision on all three corruption references against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family within a month. A two-member bench headed by the chief justice was hearing the...

Bollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra apologised Sunday after a furore over a US TV series that showed her uncovering a terror plot hatched by Indian Hindu nationalists. The episode of spy thriller Quantico showed Priyanka's character, an FBI agent named Alex Parrish, thwarting the plan and...

Former President General (retd) Pervaiz Musharraf said on Sunday that the Supreme Court's 'ambiguous' verdict has left him confused. A three-member SC bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Mian Saqib Nisar has ordered Musharraf to appear before court and assured he will not...

Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan alleged on Sunday that a 'comical drama' is being staged by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leadership to not issue him party tickets for the forthcoming polls. Meanwhile, party leader Nawaz Sharif and ex-Punjab chief minister Shehbaz Sharif are at...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for the Iran nuclear deal to be "earnestly" implemented as he met the country’s president following the US withdrawal from the pact, state media said Monday. Xi met one-on-one with Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Sunday following a two-day regional...

Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's legal counsel Khawaja Haris on Monday excused from representing Nawaz Sharif from in the NAB references filed against his family. Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on June 10 had directed the accountability court to announce its verdict on...

The US dollar hit a record high of Rs121 in interbank trading on Monday morning, reported Geo News. The greenback, which was previously standing at Rs115.63, rose by Rs5.38, according to foreign exchange dealers. Increasing imports and a widening current account deficit were cited as the...