ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday asked Bangla­desh to use the Tripartite Ag­­reement of 1974 to addr­ess outstanding issues in the bilateral relationship. Pakistani High Commis­sioner in Dhaka Imran Ahmed Siddiqui during a meeting with Bangladesh State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam han­ded over to the latter a copy of the Tripartite Agree­­ment of 1974, according to a statement issued by …

WASHINGTON: Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced her resignation on Thursday, the first cabinet minister to join a growing list of US President Donald Trump’s staff leaving over the storming of the Capitol by his supporters. Four people were killed in the clashes that followed. Chao, the wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, said the mob attack “has deeply troubled …

PARIS: French Prime Minister Jean Castex said restaurants, cinemas and museums would remain closed throughout January and ski resorts might not reopen before the February holidays as France cranked up its vaccination rollout. A nationwide nightly curfew was being extended until at least Jan. 20, said Castex, adding that he could not rule out a further nationwide tightening of measures …

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for President Donald Trump to be urgently removed from power, branding him “a very dangerous person who should not continue in office”. “This is an emergency of the highest magnitude,” the top-ranking Democrat in Congress said as she urged Vice President Mike Pence and Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment. If the 25th …

Congressional Democrats were moving closer to a historic step on Friday as they weighed impeaching US President Donald Trump for a second time, two days after his false claims of election fraud helped encourage a mob that breached the US Capitol. Top Democratic leaders, including House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, called for immediate impeachment …

KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Thursday acquitted the chief of the defunct Peoples Amn Committee Uzair Jan Baloch along with 10 others in the cases pertaining to armed attack on policemen. Baloch, the alleged Lyari kingpin, was charged with attacking a police party along with his comrades, including Mohammad Nawaz, Hassan Ali, alias Hassoo, Abdul Ghaffar, Zahoor Ahmed, Zahid, Abdul …

ISLAMABAD: All the central office-bearers of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), including its chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, have been “re-elected” for another four-year term without having any contest. The intra-party elections at the federal level were held in Karachi on Wednesday (Jan 6) “in accordance with Constitution of the PPP and the country’s Elections Act 2017” and election commissioner Fauzia Habib …

LAHORE: As Rs1.9 billion have been estimated for annual electricity billing for the operation of Lahore Orange Line Metro Train, the Punjab Mass Transit Authority (PMTA) has reportedly received more than Rs80 million bill for December last. The amount of monthly bills is expected to increase gradually with rise in temperature in coming months. The authorities concerned have started implementing …

PESHAWAR: The Bannu district police have registered a case against the local leaders and organisers of Pakistan Democratic Movement’s rally held on Wednesday at the sports complex in Bannu. According to the FIR registered by SHO Imranullah Khattak of the city’s Saddar police station, organisers of the rally forcibly entered the sports complex and demolished its backside wall to make …

KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Thursday passed a bill enhancing privileges and allowances of the provincial parliamentary secretaries, including ‘special allowance’ of Rs 50,000, use of a car, house rent and sumptuary allowance. Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Mukesh Kumar Chawla, who presented The Sindh Parliamentary Secretaries (Salaries, Allowances and Privileges) (Amendment) Bill, 2021, said that the privileges and perks of …