Cairo: Hopes rose of progress in the Palestinian peace process after landmark new talks between the leaders of Egypt and Israel. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh for discussions that focused on
Masud Ahmad Khan After independence, the Nehru government backed Afghan claims on Pashtunistan and the Durand Line issue. After the 1965 war, India actively joined Afghanistan to support the issue of Pashtunistan, Durand Line and an independent Balochistan. Soon the Balochistan People’s Liberation Front (BPLF) started
Washington: Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Asad Majeed Khan on Tuesday said Pakistan does not want Afghan territory to be used against any country including Pakistan. “We want human and women’s rights to be preserved in Afghanistan”, the ambassador said in an interview with the
Washington: The United States spent $290 million every day for 7,300 days on its war efforts and nation-building projects in Afghanistan, says a report compiled by Brown University. That’s how the United States ended up spending more than $2 trillion in the last 20 years in
Minneapolis: A militia group leader, who was convicted of the 2017 bombing of a mosque outside of Minneapolis that "terrorised" the community of Somali immigrants it served, was sentenced to 53 years in prison. Emily Claire Hari, 50, was found guilty in December, after a five-week
Qaisar Mansoor Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has presented a 131-page dossier detailing a series of atrocities committed by the Indian government in Indian-controlled Kashmir during a joint press conference in along with the Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari and National Security Adviser
Geneva: United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet voiced her continued concern over the situation in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), saying the ongoing use of a tough law, which is aimed at quelling dissent, was "worrying." “Indian authorities’ restrictions
Rajasthan: Sabir Khan, a 16-year-old and a class 11 student in Rajasthan’s Alwar district was run over by Hindu cow vigilantes. Khan, a resident of Sare Kalan village in Tijara tehsil of Alwar district, died after being hit by a car driven by members of Gauraksha
Kabul: Less than a month after the Taliban rolled into the Afghan capital, Rabia Jamal made a tough decision -- she would brave the hardliners and return to work at the airport. With the Taliban saying women should stay at home for their own security the
Islamabad: A retired Indian army officer became the butt of a joke on Twitter after he mistook a photo from a Pakistani military-themed film as showing Pakistani soldiers who he falsely claimed were martyred in Afghanistan's Panjshir valley. The apparent confusion started after another former Indian