China hopes Maldives can itself resolve crisis, raises travel alert level
Beijing, Feb 6 : China on Tuesday expressed hope that the Maldivian government and the opposition parties have the wisdom to resolve the political crisis on their own. At the same time, it also raised the level of travel alert it issued on Monday, asking its citizens to cancel their plans to go to the […]
Rajiv, Benazir were ready to resolve Kashmir dispute: Zardari
February 06, 2018 Rajiv Gandhi and Benazir Bhutto were ready to resolve the Kashmir issue amicably but the Indian leader was assassinated during the election campaign, Pakistan’s former president Asif Ali Zardari has claimed. Zardari also revealed that former dictator Gen (retd.) Pervez Musharraf had come up with a plan on Kashmir issue but other […]
US redeploying troops to Afghanistan from Iraq: Report
The US military is pulling its forces from a base in Iraq and shifting them to Afghanistan following the defeat of Daesh militants in the Arab country, the Associated Press reported on Monday. The news agency quoted Western contractors at the base as saying that US troops began the drawdown over the past week, with groups of soldiers leaving […]
Trump’s government to continue Israeli war on Islam: Analyst
By nominating an open Islamophobe to lead a top United Nations aid agency, the government of US President Donald Trump showed its disregard for freedom of religion, says an American analyst. Dr. Kevin Barrett, an author and Islamic researcher in Madison, Wisconsin, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV about Ken Issacs, the […]
India may target CPEC installations: Pakistan Interior Ministry
Islamabad, Feb 5 :India plans to attack installations along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to sabotage the multi-billion dollar mega project, Pakistan’s Interior Ministry has claimed. The Ministry, in a letter to Gilgit-Baltistan’s Home Department warned of possible terrorist attacks on the CPEC route, including bridges at Karakoram Highway and other important points. It issued […]
Resolution of Kashmir issue must for peace: Says Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan today said the dream of peace and prosperity in the region would remain elusive without resolving the Kashmir issue and reaffirmed its support for the people in the Valley in their struggle for the right to “self-determination”. President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi made these remarks in their separate messages […]
Israel hits Gaza for 2nd time in 2 days
Sat Feb 3, 2018 Israeli warplanes have carried out a second attack in two days against targets in the Gaza Strip that Tel Aviv alleges to belong to the Hamas resistance group. On Saturday, the Israeli military said warplanes had struck “a Hamas compound” in the southern Gaza Strip, “after Palestinians there fired a rocket” into […]
Baloch militants no longer a threat to CPEC: Chinese envoy
Karachi, Feb. 3 : Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Yao Jing has said that militant groups operating in Balochistan are no longer a threat to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). According to the media reports, Jing said that the members of banned outfits were “not true Pakistanis”. “If they [Baloch militants] are true Pakistanis, they should […]
Russia developing undersea nuclear torpedo: Report
Washington DC Feb 3: A Pentagon report for the first time has acknowledged that Russia is building and developing an “undersea” nuclear torpedo. According to a report from the US Defense Department, which assesses the arms advancements being made in other countries, Russia is “developing” a “new intercontinental, nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered, undersea autonomous torpedo which is […]
Trump likely to approve release of secret memo defying FBI
February 02, 2018 United States President Donald Trump is set to approve the release of a controversial memo accusing the Federal Bureau of Investigation of abusing its surveillance tools during its probe into alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election, setting up a clash with the intelligence agency. The approval for the release of […]
