WASHINGTON: Authorities in India must stop targeting prominent Kashmiri activist Khurram Parvez, a group of independent UN human rights experts said on Wednesday, while calling for his immediate release from detention. Mr Parvez has documented […]
WASHINGTON: The UN Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday unanimously adopted a US resolution, which Pakistan believes opens the door to providing humanitarian aid to Afghanistan without violating UN sanctions on the Taliban. The resolution allowed […]
ANKARA: The Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and opposition groups “mutually and simultaneously” release detainees as part of the Astana Process on Thursday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. “Several persons detained by the […]
ANKARA: Checks in France for mandatory health passes designed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic turned up 11,000 fake passes, the country’s interior minister said Wednesday. Checks for the health pass – a digital proof of […]
DUBAI: UNESCO on Tuesday added Arabic calligraphy, a key tradition in the Arab and Islamic worlds, to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list. A total of 16 Muslim-majority countries, led by Saudi Arabia, presented the nomination […]
The US Congress on Wednesday voted to set up a commission to assess the failures of the 20-year war in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s victory. The commission was part of a $768 billion annual defence […]
KABUL: Saudi Arabia sent two aircraft carrying humanitarian aid to Afghanistan Thursday, state media reported, its first such initiative since the Taliban took control of the crisis-stricken country in August. The kingdom’s state-run King Salman […]
NEW DELHI: Indian analysts hope that the US will keep strategic interests in mind and decide against sanctions in the wake of the country receiving $5.5 billion worth of the Russian S-400 missile defense system. […]
TRENTON: Canada issued a warning to Canadians on Wednesday to cancel trips abroad as transmission of the omicron coronavirus variant spreads rapidly worldwide. “To those who were planning to travel [internationally] I say very clearly […]
ISLAMABAD: As part of the assistance package to the nascent Afghan government, Pakistan has decided in principle to offer thousands of scholarships to Afghan students, besides opening a campus of Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) […]
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