War against terror is fight between moderates, extremists: Jordanian King
Visiting Jordanian King Abdullah II on Thursday said that the global war against terror was not a fight between different religions but between moderates and extremists. “Today’s global war against terror is not a fight between different religions or people. It is between moderates of all faiths and communities against extremism, hate and violence,” the […]
US urges India, Pakistan to sit together and ease tensions
WASHINGTON: The United States (US) has on Wednesday urged the two nuclear-armed neighbours, Pakistan and India, to initiate dialogue on the issues raising alarm for heightened tensions in the near future. The US State Department’s spokesperson Heather Nauert said that both parties should sit and discuss the escalating border tensions between the two South Asian countries […]
Gunmen open fire on officer in SW Pakistan, killing 2 guards
ISLAMABAD : Pakistani police say gunmen have opened fire on a vehicle carrying a senior police officer in the southwestern city of Quetta, killing two of his guards but the officer escaped unhurt. Abdur Razzaq Cheema, police chief in Quetta, said the target of Wednesday’s attack was Hameedullah Dasti. He was en route to a […]
Afghanistan’s Ghani offers talks with Taliban “without preconditions”
KABUL – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani offered recognition of the Taliban as a legitimate political group on Wednesday as part of a proposed political process that he said could lead to talks aimed at ending more than 16 years of war. The offer, made at the start of an international conference aimed at creating a […]
North Korea helping Syria make chemical weapons
United Nations: North Korea has been shipping supplies to the Syrian government that could be used in the production of chemical weapons, United Nations experts contend. The evidence of a North Korean connection comes as the United States and other countries have accused the Syrian government of using chemical weapons on civilians, including recent attacks […]
US-led airstrikes kill 25 civilians in Syria
Damascus, Feb 26 : Airstrikes by the US-led anti-terror coalition on an area in Syria’s eastern province of Deir al-Zour have killed 25 civilians, a monitor group reported on Monday. The airstrikes targeted the last Islamic State (IS) pocket on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River on Sunday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human […]
4 killed as blast destroys building in UK; Police rules out terror angle
Police declared a “major incident” after the explosion occurred on Sunday evening on a stretch of road containing commercial and residential properties close to Leicester’s city centre. Four people died after the explosion and subsequent fire destroyed a shop and the flat above it. A fire and rescue service spokeswoman said the emergency services were […]
Pakistan to attend WTO talks in New Delhi upon Indian invitation: report
February 26, 2018 Pakistan’s Minister of Commerce Pervaiz Malik will attend an informal WTO ministerial meeting taking place in New Delhi on March 19-20, The Indian Express reportedMonday. Quoting unnamed diplomatic sources, the newspaper said the Pakistani side has confirmed the participation of the minister. The invitation comes in the wake of the late-December secret back-channel […]
Myanmar bulldozes what was left of Rohingya Muslim villages
Bangkok: First, their villages were burned to the ground. Now, Myanmar’s government is using bulldozers to literally erase them from the earth – in a vast operation rights groups say is destroying crucial evidence of mass atrocities against the nation’s ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority. Satellite images of Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state, released by Colorado-based DigitalGlobe […]
Twin car bombings kill nearly 30 in Somalia’s Mogadishu
Twin car bombings and subsequent gunfire has left at least 27 people dead and 20 others wounded in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, medical workers said. A loud explosion reportedly took place on Friday, followed by a second blast and sustained gunfire which broke out near the president’s residence. The second blast took place beside a popular […]
