LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ameerul Azim and Mushaal Hussein Mullick, the wife of detained Kashmiri leader Yasim Malik, have demanded Pakistan should cut off all diplomatic ties with India and nullify the Simla Agreement to show solidarity with the Kashmir cause. Addressing a joint conference at Mansoora on Monday, both leaders appealed to the media and the nation to play …

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has upheld the trial of political activist Mohammad Idrees Khattak by a field general court martial (FGCM) for allegedly providing ‘official secrets’ regarding military operations in Pakistan to an official of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service commonly known as MI6. A bench consisting of Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Syed Arshad Ali dismissed …

ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has formed an 11-member parliamentary board headed by Prime Minister Imran Khan for award of tickets for upcoming Senate elections. According to a notification issued by PTI Central Secretariat, Prime Minister Imran Khan will chair the board comprising Sindh Governor Imran Ismail, KP Governor Shah Farman, Punjab Governor Ch Sarwar, Defence Minister Pervaiz Khattak, …

• Qureshi receives first batch at Nur Khan Airbase • Chinese envoy says Pakistan first to get free vaccine • Doses being dispatched to federating units today ISLAMABAD: Following the arrival of half a million doses of Covid-19 vaccine from China, the vaccination drive is set to begin across the country on Wednesday. The first batch of the vaccines reached …

A Keller police officer resigned Monday after accusations he used excessive force when he pepper-sprayed a man during a traffic stop, the department said. Blake Shimanek’s resignation comes one week after the city of Keller reached a $200,000 settlement with the man, who was arrested and pepper-sprayed in August for what the man said was retaliation for recording his son’s …

A web designer originally from Denton County who is a self-described Proud Boys member has been arrested on charges related to the storming the U.S. Capitol, federal court records show. Daniel Goodwyn, 32, was arrested on Friday in the Eastern District of Texas, according to federal authorities. He currently lives in San Francisco and was captured on video inside the …

WASHINGTON — A group of anti-Trump Republicans has posted billboards around Texas trying to make Sen. Ted Cruz squirm by implicating him in the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol and demanding he resign. Cruz repeatedly blamed President Donald Trump’s defeat on fraud, a claim he persisted in leveling even after dozens of state and federal courts threw out such …

A teenager was found dead Monday after an overnight gunfight, Garland police say. Officers were called just after noon to the 500 block of West Interstate 30, near Broadway Boulevard, where a man had been found dead behind a building. He was identified as Rhamil Reason, 18, of Dallas. Police said that, based on surveillance footage, it appears that Reason …

Less than a week after the city opened a COVID-19 vaccine site to the public, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson apologized on Monday to residents who were turned away from the convention center this weekend after many thought they had booked valid appointments. At a news conference, Johnson assured that city staff was working on a solution that would stop more …

AUSTIN – Gov. Greg Abbott took his State of the State speech on the road late Monday, stressing that after a tough year of the coronavirus pandemic and recession, “normalcy is returning to Texas.” In a television program broadcast live from a small business in the Central Texas town of Lockhart, Abbott hailed the “Texas model” of low taxes and …