UNITED STATES

Not ready for peace with India without resolving Kashmir issue in just manner: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi

Not ready for peace with India without resolving Kashmir issue in just manner: Pak FM

12:11 pm January 17, 2020

Washington: Pakistan is not prepared to pay any price for peace with India and certainly not without resolving the Kashmir issue in a just manner, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said. Addressing the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) think-tank here on Thursday, Qureshi reiterated Pakistan’s demand that US President Donald Trump should […]

Taliban cheer Trump tweet promising early troop withdrawal

Taliban say they handed cease-fire offer to US peace envoy

10:30 pm January 16, 2020

Islamabad: The Taliban have given the US envoy a document outlining their offer for a temporary cease-fire in Afghanistan that would last between seven and 10 days, Taliban officials familiar with the negotiations said Thursday. The offer is seen as an opportunity to open a window to an eventual peace deal for Afghanistan that would […]

Millennials fear nuclear attack in next decade: survey

8:05 pm January 16, 2020

Geneva: More than half of millennials fear there will be a nuclear attack somewhere in the world within the next decade, according to a survey by the Red Cross released on Thursday. Some 47 per cent of respondents to the poll of 16,000 young people also believed it was more likely than not that there […]

Turkey: 115 soldiers detained over links to US-based cleric

3:41 pm January 14, 2020

Ankara: Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained 115 soldiers suspected of links to the U.S.-based Muslim cleric blamed by Turkey for a failed coup attempt in 2016, the state-run news agency reported. Anadolu Agency says the 115 are among a total of 176 soldiers that prosecutors ordered detained as part of an ongoing investigation into cleric […]

UK judge refuses extradition of WikiLeaks founder Assange

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange in UK court fighting extradition to USA

9:13 pm January 13, 2020

London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a brief court appearance Monday in his bid to prevent extradition to the United States to face serious espionage charges. He and his lawyers complained they weren’t being given enough time to meet to plan their battle against U.S. prosecutors seeking to put him on trial for WikiLeaks’ publication […]