International

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi had a brief conversation on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. The interaction took place Saturday when Jaishankar was going to the stage for a panel discussion and Wang was...

Islamabad: Pakistan's election commission has formed a high-level committee to probe the explosive allegations levelled by a senior bureaucrat that widespread rigging aided by the judiciary and the top election body happened against jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan's party in the garrison city of...

Islamabad/Lahore: Authorities Saturday imposed prohibitory orders here in Pakistan's capital as jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's party began nationwide protests against alleged rigging and stealing of its mandate in the recent elections. Criticising the outcome of the polls, which saw the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party-backed...

Moscow: Alexei Navalny's spokesperson confirmed Saturday that the Russian opposition leader had died at a remote Arctic penal colony and said he was “murdered" but it is unclear where his body is. An official note handed to Navalny's mother stated that he died at 2.17...

New Delhi: Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will pay a two-day state visit to India from February 21 with an aim to further deepen the strategic partnership between the two countries. It would be the first visit to India by a head of state of...

Islamabad: A senior Pakistani bureaucrat Saturday alleged that the chief election commissioner and the chief justice were involved in poll-rigging in the recent election as he resigned from his post, taking the ‘responsibility for all this wrongdoing’. Former Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chattha's remarks came...

Kyiv: Ukraine's military chief said early Saturday that he's withdrawing troops from the city of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine, where outnumbered defenders have battled a Russian assault for four months. The timing is critical as Russia is looking for a morale boost ahead of the...

Lahore: Police in Pakistan's Punjab province Saturday claimed to have foiled a major terror plot by arresting seven terrorists, including a key Taliban commander. The spokesman for the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Pakistan's Punjab Police said that it conducted several intelligence-based operations in different...

Islamabad: Afghan women feel scared or unsafe leaving their homes alone because of Taliban decrees and enforcement campaigns on clothing and male guardians, according to a report from the UN mission in Afghanistan. The report was issued days before a UN-convened meeting in the Qatari...

New York: A local judge has dealt a blow to Donald Trump’s purse and ego, hitting him with a massive fine of over $350 million, depleting available cash in an election year and barring the billionaire real estate developer from doing business in New York...