Three explosions rocked a high school in western Kabul on Tuesday, killing at least six people and injuring children, according to Afghan security and health officials.Many residents in the neighbourhood belong to the Shia Hazara community, an ethnic and religious minority frequently targeted by Sunni militant groups, including Islamic State. “Three blasts have taken place…in […]
Two British fighters captured in Ukraine by Russian forces appeared on Moscow’s state TV and have asked to be swapped with a pro-Russian politician who is currently being held by Ukrainian authorities, Reuters reported.According to reports, It was unclear how freely the two men – Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin – were able to talk. […]
The World Health Organisation has said that it is continuing to monitor “several descendent lineages” of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, including two new sublineages that have additional mutations associated with potential “immune escape characteristics”. The Covid Weekly Epidemiological Update, released by WHO on Tuesday, said that the Omicron variant remains the dominant variant […]
India’s import of Russian crude oil while Moscow is under sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine ‘is no violation of sanctions’ given ‘it is only 1-2 per cent at this time’, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said late Monday after prime minister Narendra Modi and US president Joe Biden spoke briefly. Psaki’s remarks also […]
Crisis-ridden Sri Lanka on Tuesday said it was defaulting on its external debt of around $51 billion pending a bailout from the International Monetary Fund, with whom talks are scheduled for later this month. Sri Lanka’s finance ministry said creditors, including foreign governments, were free to capitalise interest payments due from Tuesday afternoon or opt […]
Shehbaz Sharif, who became Pakistan’s new prime minister after the unceremonious ouster of Imran Khan, is a hardcore realist and over the years has earned the reputation of a matter-of-fact person as well as a good administrator. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz, the 70-year-old younger brother of former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, has […]
Soon after he was elected as Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif in his inaugural speech on Monday raised the issue of abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir and alleged that the people in the Valley were “bleeding” and Pakistan will provide them with “diplomatic and moral support” besides raising the matter at every international fora. […]
Shehbaz Sharif — the 70-year-old brother of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the leader of opposition PML-N — has been elected unopposed as the next Prime Minister of Pakistan, succeeding Imran Khan, who was removed by a no-trust vote on Saturday. Ahead of the election of the new Prime Minister, Imran Khan resigned as […]
The names of six key aides of ousted prime minister Imran Khan have been put on a stop list by Pakistan’s top investigation agency to prevent them from leaving the country, according to a media report on Monday. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) placed the names of the six on the ‘stop list’ on Sunday […]
Imran Khan has thanked his supporters for their participation in rallies held across Pakistan and abroad to protest against his ouster as prime minister and the formation of a “US-backed regime” in Islamabad. Protest rallies were held in different Pakistani cities after 9 pm on Sunday and continued for several hours on the call of […]