New Delhi: Indian farmers umbrella body Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) announced a pan-India MSP Legal Guarantee Week between April 11, 2022 and April 17, 2022 as the next phase of the movement. Leaders agreed upon this campaign during a meeting at the Gandhi Peace Foundation
Islamabad: Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday said that the United States Department of State did not take a clear position on the recent incident of Indian violation of Pakistani airspace by launching a projectile into Pakistan. Addressing a press conference, the
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti and Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Vice Chairman, Omar Abdullah called the Karnataka High Court’s decision to uphold the hijab ban as “deeply disappointing”, saying that hijab is not only about religion but the freedom to choose. Commenting
Islamabad: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi briefed United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on India's so-called "accidental" missile launch last week that landed in Pakistani territory, Radio Pakistan reported. In a phone conversation with the UN secretary-general, Pakistan's Foreign Minister emphasised that it was a flagrant breach
New Delhi: India has once again emerged as the world’s largest importer of weapons and military equipment, accounting for 11 per cent of all such international imports. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Australia and China are the next four biggest importers. The US, Russia and France are the
Qaisar Mansoor Islamophobia has taken a “most lethal form” in India, turning some 250 million Indian Muslims into a “persecuted minority”, Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned scholar, author and activist, has said. “The pathology of Islamophobia is growing throughout the West — (but) it is taking its most
By Umair Jamal Last week, India accidentally fired a ballistic missile at its nuclear armed arch-rival, Pakistan. Islamabad’s measured response to the event, which has been lauded widely, perhaps averted a calamity. However, the event, and India’s delayed and casual response to it, has not only set
By HASAN ISMAIK At least three Syrian children are dead this month from inadequate protection against the snowstorms and subzero temperatures that have made 2022 the coldest winter in 40 years in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey. Their mothers are among Syria’s 6.8 million internally
Berlin: Germany plans to buy up to 35 US-made F-35 fighter jets and 15 Eurofighter jets, a parliamentary source said Monday, as part of a major push to modernise the armed forces in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The F-35 jets made by Lockheed Martin
Geneva: The World Health Organisation advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country's public health laboratories to prevent "any potential spills" that would spread disease among the population, the agency told Reuters. Biosecurity experts say Russia's movement of troops into Ukraine and bombardment of