International

ISLAMABAD, May 11 : Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on his youth to shoulder the responsibility of building a modern socialist country and realizing the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation. The Chinese president made the remarks during a ceremony marking the centenary of the Communist Youth League of China …

BEIJING, May 11 : Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has congratulated Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on taking oath as the new Foreign Minister of Pakistan. In a message sent on April 29, Wang Yi said that China and Pakistan are all-weather strategic cooperative partners. He said the China-Pakistan …

Jenin, Palestinian Territories, May 11 : Veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh was killed by Israeli troops Wednesday as she covered a raid on Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the network and Palestinian witnesses said. Al Jazeera said its journalist had been shot dead “deliberately” and …

ISLAMABAD, May 11 : Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday said it was the deliberate strategy of Israel and India to silence the voices of those who narrated the stories of oppression faced by the people of Palestine and the Occupied Kashmir. The prime minister expressed these views in reaction …

WASHINGTON, May 11 : A United States State Department spokesman Tuesday again rejected former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan’s allegations about US involvement in his ouster from power, saying Washington will not permit any “disinformation, lies” to interfere with the bilateral relationship with Pakistan it values. “We are not going …

ISLAMABAD, May 11 :Minister for Law and Justice Senator Azam Nazir Tarar Wednesday said that present government’ top agenda to introduce electoral reforms in the country would ensure transparency in the democratic process and level playing field for all political parties. Talking to media, he said the government was ready …

Islamabad-Bitcoin fell to its lowest level since July 2021 on Tuesday as slumping equity markets continued to hurt cryptocurrencies, which are currently trading in line with so-called riskier assets like tech stocks. Bitcoin dropped to as low as $32,763.16 shortly before 1100 GMT, in its fifth consecutive session of falling. …

Kabul-About a dozen women protested in the Afghan capital on Tuesday against the Taliban’s new edict that females must fully cover their faces and bodies when in public. Afghanistan’s supreme leader and Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada issued a mandate over the weekend ordering women to cover up fully, ideally with …

ISLAMABAD, May 10 : Pakistan on Tuesday condemned in the strongest possible terms, the highly deplorable incidents involving the playing of Hanuman Chalisa and other Hindu devotional songs on loudspeakers as a counter to the Muslims’ call to prayer (Azaan) at various mosques in Indian state of Karnataka. “The disturbing …

ISLAMABAD, May 10 : Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday, taking notice of the detection of highly-infectious sub-variant of Omicron virus, directed the restoration of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC). The prime minister ordered immediate restoration of the NCOC after the country a day earlier had reported its …