Aug 20, 2018 Washington: The US declared it is ready to support, facilitate and participate in direct negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban, on the occasion of the Afghan government’s announcement on Sunday…
Aug 17, 2018 Islamabad: Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan was elected Pakistan’s 22nd Prime Minister by the country’s National Assembly on Friday, three weeks after his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party won the highest number of seats in…
August 16, 2018 Kabul: The Islamic State terror organization on Thursday claimed responsibility for an attack on an educational centre in the Afghan capital, which killed at least 34 people and wounded 56. The government…
Aug 13, 2018 Dhaka:A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced five convicts to death for crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War. The International Crimes Tribunal’s three-member panel of judges led by Justice Shahinur Islam…
Aug 12, 2018 Tel Aviv:Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel will continue to fight Hamas in Gaza before a “complete cease-fire” is achieved. “We are in the midst of a campaign against…
Aug 12, 2018 Washington:Over 600 people gathered in Charlottesville to express their rejection of white supremacy, almost a year after the neo-Nazi protests left three dead in this US city. The protest was initially scheduled…
Aug 11, 2018 Jakarta:Indonesian authorities on Saturday raised the death toll in Lombok island earthquake to 387, while the number of injured and displaced went up to 13,688 and 387,067, respectively. The 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit…
August 11, 2018 United Nations: A UN human rights committee has heard there were credible reports that China is holding a million ethnic Uighurs in “counter-extremism centres”. Gay McDougall, a member of the UN Committee…
August 11, 2018 Washington: US military institutions are struggling to fill the 66 slots they had kept aside for officers from Pakistan for the next academic year, as President Donald Trump’s administration refused to provide…
By Arul Louis August 10, 2018 United Nations: In a unanimous vote full of symbolism, the UN General Assembly on Friday approved the appointment of a victim of human rights abuses, Michelle Bachelet, as the…
