Islamabad: National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf has told Indian journalist Karan Thapar that talks with India are "impossible" until it revokes the unilateral, aggressive actions it has taken in occupied Kashmir. During an interview with Thapar, published on The Wire on Saturday, Yusuf said the question

Srinagar: An India-based government agency that is also believed to be a client of Israeli company NSO Group reportedly made hacking attempts on phones of over 25 Hurriyat leaders hailing from Indian occupied Kashmir between 2017 and mid-2019. According to leaked record reviews by The Wire,

Dubai: Travellers from major south Asian countries, including India may have to wait till they can travel to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), after the Gulf nation extended the ban on international flights from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The restrictions from these countries

Paris: What worries one of the world’s leading climate scientists the most? Heatwaves — and particularly the tendency of current models to underestimate the intensity of these bursts of deadly, searing temperature. This is one of the “major mysteries” science still has to unravel, climatologist Robert Vautard

London: Daily contact testing will be rolled out to workplaces in Britain's food sector so staff who have been 'pinged' by the COVID-19 app can keep working if they test negative rather than isolating, the government said. Some supermarkets are facing shortages of specific products -

Geneva: Former UN rights chief Navi Pillay will lead the United Nations  open-ended inquiry into "systematic" abuses in Israel and the Palestinian territories. The UN Human Rights Council’s president said Pillay would lead a three-person investigation intended to scrutinise abuses and their "root causes" in the

London: Britain demanded that the European Union agree to rewrite a deal overseeing problematic post-Brexit trade involving Northern Ireland just a year after it was agreed with the bloc, a call immediately rejected by Brussels. The Northern Ireland protocol was part of the Brexit settlement, backed

Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday called on the relevant United Nations bodies to thoroughly investigate India's use of Israeli spyware against Prime Minister Imran Khan and others. "We have noted with serious concern recent international media reports exposing Indian government's organised spying operations against its own citizens,

Addis Ababa: Attacks by Tigrayan forces in Ethiopia’s Afar region have forced more than 54,000 people from their homes, an official said as tens of thousands of people rallied in the capital to support the prime minister. Tigrayan fighters, who want the Ethiopian government to accept

New Delhi: Reports from some websites misquoting, mistranslating and misinterpreting a Hebrew statement issued by Amnesty International Israel on the Pegasus Project and its leaked database have been seized upon by the Modi government in an attempt to discredit the allegation that an official agency

New Delhi: On July 16, 2019, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) announced the reconstitution of a ‘high level committee’ to implement Clause 6, a salient section of the Assam Accord. The clause is designed to provide ‘constitutional safeguards” to the “Assamese people” and its importance

Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron has changed his mobile phone and phone number in light of the Pegasus spyware case, a presidency official said on Thursday, in one of the first concrete actions announced in relation to the scandal. "He's got several phone numbers. This does