Islamabad: Politicisation of Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) could have serious implications for future disarmament efforts, warned a Pakistani diplomat at a webinar on the convention hosted by Centre for International Strategic Studies (CISS). Director (Disarmament) at the Foreign Office Ali Sattar, according to a statement issued
Islamabad: Pakistan, in its bid to cut down carbon emissions, has vowed that 30% of the cars running in the country would be electrically powered. The pledge came during US President Joe Biden’s Virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, where Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM)
Istanbul: Pakistan has categorically rejected that it is holding "any" peace talks with India through backdoor channels or with third-party mediation. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, in an interview with TRT, a Turkish media outlet, noted that the UAE has good relations with both South Asian
London: London’s High Court has paved the way for a case that could force its judges to take a view on who invented bitcoin, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency which last week soared to all-time highs. The court has allowed Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist who
Washington: The Pentagon has deployed B-52 bombers to the Middle East and has prolonged the presence of an aircraft carrier in the region to support the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, spokesman John Kirby said Friday. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin decided to keep the
Washington: US President Joe Biden spoke to an alarmed Turkey a day before he is expected to make the landmark recognition of the Armenian genocide. Saturday marks the 106th anniversary of the waning Ottoman Empire s mass killings of hundreds of thousands of Armenians, whose descendants
Kuwait City: Kuwait’s directorate general of civil aviation said early on Saturday in a tweet that it had suspended all direct commercial flights coming from India, effective April 24 and until further notice. The move was on the instructions of health authorities after an evaluation of
New York: Several Indian-American Muslim, Sikh and Christian groups have applauded the US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) for its latest report wherein it has recommended India be designated as a “country of particular concern (CPC)" for the alleged deterioration of religious freedom in
Budapest: Despite a chorus of international criticism, the Hungarian government has been in no hurry to act on a June 2020 EU Court decision that states a 2017 law forcing civil society organizations receiving more than 20.000 EUR per year in foreign funds to register
Rawalpindi: Peace in Afghanistan means peace in Pakistan, reiterated Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa as he met Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan, Najibullah Ali Khil. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), in a statement, said the army chief and the Afghan envoy, during their