CAIRO: Egypt’s president pardoned two prominent rights activists, including one with ties to Italy who was sentenced this week, the country’s state-run news agency reported. Among an unspecified number of people pardoned Wednesday by President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi was rights activist Patrick George Zaki, who was
ISLAMABAD: The former chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, is set to receive the 2023 ABA International Human Rights Award, a statement from the American Bar Association (ABA) announced recently. The jurist has been selected for the prize in recognition of "his courageous judgments
ISLAMABAD: Gaining three more points since the last assessment, Pakistan ranked above India, Iran, and North Korea in terms of its handling of hazardous material, according to media reports, citing an international organisation evaluating the status of global nuclear security. According to foreign media reports, the
NEW DELHI: The government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came under fire over its failure to curb violence in Manipur after a horrific video of two women allegedly gang-raped and being paraded naked on the road by a group of men surfaced on social
KARACHI: Nawab of Junagarh, Muhammad Jahangir Khanji passed away in Karachi, today. Nawab Muhammad Jahangir Khanji was admitted to a private hospital after being diagnosed with cancer where he breathed his last. The funeral prayer of the Nawab will be offered tomorrow (Friday) at Junagadh House in
MUZAFFARABAD: Razia Sultana, the daughter of illegally detained Kashmiri Hurriyat leader, Yasin Malik, has warned the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, that he will be responsible if her father was harmed in any way in the prison. Yasin Malik has been languishing in New Delhi’s infamous
KARNATAKA: Ten MLAs of the Bharatiya Janata Party were suspended from the Karnataka Assembly for their “indecent and disrespectful conduct” in the House, PTI reported. The MLAs have been suspended for the remainder of the session by Speaker UT Khader. The action was taken against CN
LONDON: Lawyers for Spain’s ex-king Juan Carlos I asked a court in London to throw out a claim for damages of over £126 million by a former lover. Danish businesswoman Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, who is in her late 50s and lives in England, has sued Juan
LUCKNOW: A river that runs through the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has risen to lap the compound walls of the iconic Taj Mahal in Agra city, causing concern about damage to the 17th-century white marble monument. The water level of the Yamuna River has
NEW DELHI: More than two dozen Indian opposition parties has said that they had formed an alliance called "INDIA" to challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in parliamentary elections next year. The alliance said in a statement that the BJP was assaulting