Afghanistan is all set for a new geopolitical game and is bracing for the advent of a new player, Turkey with the latter's grand potential ambitions and practices in West Asia. Turkey has taken upon the task to secure Kabul Airport with the explicit backing of America despite the

LAHORE: Citizens from all walks of life and various age groups gathered at Liberty Roundabout on Saturday to protest the rising incidents of violence against women across the country and demand safety for women and gender minorities. Organised jointly by the Aurat March, the

Raja Farooq Haider, the so-called Prime Minister of Pakistan occupied Kashmir, reprimanded the Kashmiri people for what he called their 'slave mentality' after preliminary results of Legislative Assembly polls showed Imran Khan's party notching an easy win in the

President Joe Biden says US forces will end their combat mission in Iraq by the end of this year, but will continue to train and advise the Iraqi military. The announcement came after Mr Biden held talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi at the White House. There are

Kabul [Afghanistan]: The organiser of the rocket attacks on the Presidential Palace during Eid prayers was arrested along with three others in Kabul city, said officials on Sunday. Spokesperson of Interior Ministry Miriwais Stankezai informed that the arrests were made during an Afghan

TAIWAN: Cyber attacks are a growing global threat and a number of countries are now focusing on the mounting threat of cybercrimes, Taiwan being at the forefront amid China's military pressure and crippling cyberattacks. Taiwan's head of cybersecurity told CNN Business this

A number of Pakistani companies have been facing a temporary ban on exports of fish and fish preparations to China since January after detection of coronavirus in their shipments. Qadri Noori Enterprise chief executive officer Manzar Alam told Dawn that around 50 companies have been

International pilgrims will be permitted to perform Umrah from August 10, according to Saudi local media reports. The kingdom reopened the Grand Mosque in Makkah to domestic Umrah pilgrims on Sunday, after the Hajj pilgrimage concluded last week. During Hajj, authorities restricted

Tunisia's president has sacked the prime minister and suspended parliament, after violent mass protests nationwide on Sunday. Anger over the government's handling of a massive recent spike in Covid cases has added to general unrest over the nation's economic and social

A Uyghur research scientist from the Chinese University in Shanghai has been confirmed to be in a detention centre. The search for him started when he suddenly went silent on social media from April. Tursunjan Nurmamat, who had lived in the United States between 2009 and 2018 and

Washington DC: US President Joe Biden and his Afghan counterpart Ashraf Ghani agreed that the Taliban's current offensive is in direct contradiction to the group's claim to support a negotiated settlement of the conflict, the White House said on Friday. "President Joseph

State-sponsored Chinese cyber actors were behind attacks targeting dozens of US oil and natural gas pipeline companies a decade ago, according to an investigative report released by President Joe Biden’s administration. The report found 23 natural gas pipeline operators were

Rodney Alcala, who was known as the “Dating Game Killer” and was convicted in the murders of six women and one girl in the 1970s, died on Saturday at a hospital in Kings County, Calif. He was 77. Mr. Alcala, who was on California’s death row, died of natural causes,

As many as 129 people have died in rain-related incidents, including multiple landslides, in Maharashtra over the last two days, while 84,452 people under the Pune division were shifted to safer places on Friday as heavy showers continued to wreak havoc in the state, officials said.

Karachi: Human rights activists have come together in Pakistan to express concern regarding the dire conditions of agriculture workers who are facing social and economic exclusion from the agriculture fields due to non-payment of their due by landlords. The activists have pointed

KUALA LUMPUR: Eighteen Chinese nationals were arrested by police yesterday for suspected involvement with an online cheating syndicate operating here. Bukti Aman Integrity and Standards Compliance Department (JIPS) director Datuk Azri Ahmad said the suspects were believed to have been

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Friday said there was no ban on bovine slaughter in the union territory, clarifying that the earlier order seeking to prohibit illegal killing of cows and camels on the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha was issued by the animal welfare board for

Fifteen diplomatic missions and the NATO representative in Kabul have joined hands to urge the Taliban to halt military offensives across Afghanistan, just hours after a peace meeting in Doha failed to agree on a ceasefire. A senior delegation of Afghan leaders met the Taliban’s

The daughter of Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan was briefly kidnapped and injured by unknown assailants, officials say. Silsila Alikhil was held for several hours after being seized on her way home in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Friday. Afghanistan's foreign

A man has been arrested for attempted kidnapping after a five-year-old boy was dragged into a car in broad daylight in New York City. A street camera filmed the moment the boy's mother rescued her son by pulling him through the car window. She had been walking down the street