Islamabad: The Government of Pakistan has decided to extend by two months the time for transportation of Indian wheat and lifesaving medicines to Afghanistan via Attari-Wagah border crossing on a humanitarian basis. The Foreign Office spokesperson in a statement said that the extension manifests Islamabad’s sincere

New Delhi: Hitting back at BJP president J P Nadda over his attack on opposition parties, the Congress questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's silence over the recent communal violence in some parts of the country and asked why he has not yet denounced the incidents

New Delhi: In a dangerous open challenge to Delhi Police, that comes under the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who had directed the force to take strict action against those accused in the Jahangirpuri violence, the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) reportedly threatened to launch "a

Islamabad: The Foreign Office strongly condemned the recent spree of targeted attacks against the Muslim community by "fanatic Hindu mobs" in various Indian states, calling the international community to hold the country accountable "for its gross and widespread human rights violations". Indian police had on Sunday

Roorkee Uttarakhand: Dada Jalalpur is a hamlet in Roorkee’s Bhagwanpur region. On April 16, violence broke out here after a Hanuman Jayanti ‘shobha yatra’ or procession. The lanes of the hamlet are narrow, but they clearly separate ‘Hindu’ areas from ‘Muslim’ ones. The former is marked

Riyadh: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center and the UN University for Peace signed a wide-ranging cooperation program. The supervisor general of KSrelief, Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, and the permanent observer of UN University for Peace, David Fernández Puyana, signed the program in Riyadh. The deal

Colombo, Sri Lanka: Sri Lankans protesting for days near the president’s office criticized a lack of progress in finding those responsible for the deaths of more than 260 people in Daesh-inspired bombings on Easter Sunday three years ago, piling pressure on the government already embroiled

Lviv: Five “powerful” Russian missiles hit Lviv on Monday, a city in the west of the Ukraine that has so far been spared much of the fighting since Russia invaded its pro-Western neighbour nearly two months ago, the city's mayor said. A Lviv resident told AFP

Johannesburg: The World Health Organization (WHO) said that up to 65% of people in Africa have been infected with the coronavirus and estimates the number of actual cases may have been nearly 100 times more than those reported. In a new analysis released Thursday, the U.N.

Seoul: Kim Jong Un supervised the test-firing of a new guided weapons system to improve North Korea’s “tactical nukes”, state media said on Sunday, capping days of celebrations surrounding the birthday of the country’s founding leader. The launch was the latest in an unprecedented blitz of