ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jillani has slammed the Indian Supreme Court's verdict that validated the Narendra Modi-led government's unilateral move to scrap Article 370 — the constitutional provision that granted semi-autonomous status to the Muslim-majority region. Addressing the media to share Pakistan's response to
ODISHA: Indian tax authorities claimed to have recovered millions of dollars of black money during a raid at the residences of Congress party lawmaker, as per Indian media reports. Times of India reported Monday that the value of the unaccounted cash seized by the Income Tax
CALAIS, France: On the northern French coast, dozens of migrant teenagers are living in miserable conditions in the forest while waiting to try to cross the Channel in one of the small boats at the center of a heated immigration row in Britain. British Prime Minister
VIENNA: The number of murders and other intentional killings surged to a record high across the world in 2021, driven in part by the stress and economic pressures of COVID-19 lockdowns, a UN report said. Around 458,000 people were killed intentionally, higher than the 400,000 to
LONDON: Dozens of alleged human rights abusers around the world face new sanctions under a coordinated action by the United States, Britain and Canada to mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The long list of targets ranges from human traffickers in
GAZA/CAIRO/NEW YORK: The United States kept up pressure on Israel to do more to protect Palestinian civilians during a fierce offensive against Hamas fighters across Gaza, even as Washington vetoed a UN Security Council demand for an immediate ceasefire. Fighting escalated and the Palestinian death toll
NAIROBI: Climate change caused by human activity made torrential rains that have lashed East Africa since October and killed more than 300 people up to twice as intense, a scientific study said Friday. Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia are grappling with heavy rainfall that has caused flooding
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council meets on Gaza Friday under acute pressure from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and will vote on urging an immediate ceasefire after weeks of ruinous war. Even though the civilian death toll in the Palestinian territory is mounting and living conditions are
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court in India is set to deliver its verdict Monday (December 11) on a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution which granted special status to the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). The five-judge bench
LONDON: Protests have taken place at factories across the UK tied to the arms industry over the sale of equipment to Israel. Hundreds of members of the Workers for a Free Palestine group arrived at sites in Bournemouth, Glasgow, Brighton and Lancashire to call on manufacturers