Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on Wednesday to discuss bilateral relations, the regional situation and other matters of mutual interest. Pakistan Radio reported. According to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (FO), the meeting was followed by a lunch banquet organized by President Xi in honor of […]
The leader of the South Asian branch of Al Qaeda was killed in a joint raid between the United States and Afghanistan in southern Afghanistan last month, Afghan officials confirmed Tuesday. Asim Umar, who led Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) since its inception in 2014, was killed during a September 23 raid in
France has delivered its first Rafale fighter aircraft to India from a series of 36 aircraft purchased in a multi-million dollar deal in 2016. Defense Minister Florence Parly and her Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh, who is on a three-day visit to France, attended a ceremony on Tuesday at the facilities of the aircraft manufacturer Dassault
Chief of the Army General Staff (COAS), Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, and the Chinese military leadership on Tuesday discussed the situation in Kashmir occupied by India and its consequences, Public Relations Between Services (ISPR) said. According to the military media wing, General Bajwa called the army general commander Han Weiguo, People's Liberation Army (EPL), and
The United Nations has a deficit of $ 230 million, Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Monday, and could run out of money at the end of October. In a letter addressed to the 37,000 employees of the UN secretariat and obtained by AFP, Guterres said that "additional provisional measures" not specified would have to be
India will raise a travel notice on occupied Kashmir on Thursday, Indian media said, citing authorities, two months after the government launched a security offensive before stripping the region of its semi-autonomous status on August 5. Thousands of tourists, pilgrims and Indian workers fled the Muslim majority region in early August after the authorities issued
Prime Minister Imran Khan, who arrived in China on Tuesday morning, while heading to an event in Beijing, said he wished he could follow the example of Chinese President Xi Jinping and send 500 corrupt individuals in Pakistan to jail. Speaking at the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, the prime minister said
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to two Americans and a British scientist on Monday for their discoveries on how body cells perceive and react to oxygen levels. His work has paved the way for new strategies to combat anemia, cancer and other diseases, said the Nobel Committee of the Karolinska
The Iraqi army admitted for the first time on Monday that it had used "excessive force" in almost a week of deadly protests, as paramilitary units said they were ready to back the government. More than 100 people were killed and several thousand were injured in demonstrations that turned into violence, and witnesses reported that
Turkey will not allow the Islamic State (EI) militant group to return, a presidential spokesman said on Monday, amid fears that his threat of offensive against a Kurdish militia in Syria could reinforce the militants. "Turkey will also continue to fight Daesh (IS) and will not allow it to return in any way," Ibrahim Kalin
