IRAN URGED MUSLIMS TO UNITE AGAINST THE UNITED STATES
Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday called on Muslims around the world to withstand what he deemed were “bullying” policies of the US. “For about 40 years (since the establishment of the Islamic republic in 1979), the Iranian nation has resisted bullying attempts by arrogant powers thanks to the teachings of Holy Quran,” Xinhua […]
Taliban attack kills deputy governor of eastern Logar province
KABUL,— An Afghan official says Taliban insurgents have ambushed a government convoy in eastern Logar province, killing the deputy provincial governor and his two bodyguards. Mohammad Naser Ghyrat, Logar provincial council chief, said the ambush on Kamaruddin Shekeib’s convoy early Thursday also seriously injured Shekeib’s spokesman. The Taliban control large swathes of eastern Logar and […]
Pak HC disqualifies Khawaja Asif from parl over UAE work permit
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif was on Thursday disqualified as a member of the parliament by the high court in Islamabad for concealing details of his UAE work permit while contesting elections in 2013. A three-member special bench of the Islamabad High Court announced the verdict on a petition filed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Usman […]
Will review India-China ties from strategic perspective: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping will review Sino-Indian relationship from a strategic and long-term perspective when they meet at Wuhan on April 27-28. “President Xi and I will exchange views on a range of issues of bilateral and global importance,” Modi said in a statement here. “We will discuss our respective visions and priorities for national development, […]
Pakistan says Indian fire kills 2 villagers in Kashmir
ISLAMABAD : Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry says Indian troops have fired across the frontier between the two countries in the disputed Kashmir region, killing two civilians and wounding two others. Ministry spokesman Mohammad Faisal says Indian troops Thursday targeted the villages of Thub and Banchiran on the Pakistani side of the Line of Control with mortars […]
Pakistan may soon have 3rd largest nuke stockpile
ISLAMABAD:-Pakistan is well on its way to amassing the world’s third largest nuclear weapons stockpile and its decision to deploy low-yield (5 to 10 kiloton) battlefield weapons, represents a dangerous new strategy that could have a telling impact on South Asia’s future stability, claims a military history and world affairs expert. In an article written […]
Afghanistan war veteran receives penis, scrotum transplant in surgery doctors hail as a medical first
kabul:-An Afghanistan war veteran who had his genitals blown off by a roadside bomb is the recipient of a donated penis and scrotum that doctors hope will restore his ability to function normally, after a 14-hour surgery that doctors hailed as a medical first. Doctors at a Baltimore hospital have performed the world’s most extensive […]
Ahead of summits, US tones down war games with S. Korea
South Korea — Spring on the Korean Peninsula is normally the season of D-Day-style beach landings with big guns thumping in the distance and skies crisscrossed by the contrails of fighter aircraft. But as the North and South prepare for their first summit in more than a decade this Friday, there is something different in […]
US diplomat put on ‘blacklist’ over Pakistani motorcyclist’s death
Islamabad : Pakistan’s Interior Ministry on Tuesday placed US diplomat Colonel Joseph Emmanuel Hall on the “blacklist” for killing a motorcyclist in a road accident here, prohibiting the US defence and air attache from leaving the country. Hall was driving a Land Cruiser and jumped a red signal on April 7 near Islamabad’s Daman-e-Koh Chowk, […]
Afghan girl spends life disguised as ‘son’ her parents wanted
SULTANPUR, Afghanistan: Sitara Wafadar yearns for long hair like other girls. Instead, the Afghan teenager has disguised herself as a boy for more than a decade, forced by her parents to be the “son” they never had. With five sisters and no brothers, Sitara lives by the gender-twisting custom known as “bacha poshi”, which in […]
