WASHINGTON: US and Taliban officials have resumed discussions to revive the peace process that was derailed last month after approaching an agreement, US media reported Monday. The talks "touched on confidence-building measures that could include a possible exchange of prisoners or a reduction in violence." The Wall Street Journal reported. A recent New York Times

LUCKNOW: A man digging a grave in northern India last week found a newborn girl buried alive, the last case that highlighted female infanticide in the country. Hitesh Sirohi had gone to bury his own daughter, who died a few minutes after her birth on Wednesday, when her shovel hit a clay pot, police said

ISLAMABAD: The Islamic Ideology Council (IIC) has validated around a hundred fatwas, also known as religious edicts, in support of polio vaccination, generating hopes that religious resistance against vaccines will decrease. According to an IIC document available with Dawn, the main body of the council unanimously decided to ratify fatwas by ulema in support of

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) told an accountability court on Monday that a defendant Faisal Shaheen in a video leak case had confessed to making a video of former accountability judge Mohammad Arshad Malik. In the video, the former judge admitted to convicting former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif under duress. The FIA ​​presented the

ISLAMABAD: Security personnel from the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) with the assistance of local forces, paramilitary troops and the police will provide security to the visiting royal couple during their stay in Pakistan. An advanced security team in the United Kingdom, made up of more than half a dozen personnel, had arrived in the capital