NEW YORK: The former jewel in the crown of Donald Trump’s bankrupted Atlantic City casino empire was demolished on Wednesday with 3,000 sticks of dynamite. The detonator button was pressed shortly after 9am, reducing the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino to a pile of rubble in just a few seconds. Closed since 2014, the casino was Trump’s first property in …

BRUSSELS: Nato defence ministers met on Wednesday for their first talks since US President Joe Biden took office, looking to reboot ties after four years of tensions under Donald Trump. Key on the agenda at the two-day virtual conference is the future of Nato’s 9,600-strong support mission in Afghanistan after Trump sidelined allies and struck a deal with the Taliban …

merra UNITED NATIONS: Sixty-five journalists, media professionals and human rights defenders were killed in Afghanistan between Jan 1, 2018 and Jan 31, 2021, says a UN report released this week. And 11 of these media workers have lost their lives since the start of peace negotiations last September, which led to a peace deal between the US and Taliban, signed …

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Hassan Shoukry, on Wednesday agreed to strengthen ties between Pakistan and Egypt through increased cooperation in trade and other sectors, APP reported. Both foreign ministers discussed matters of mutual interest in a meeting in Cairo, where Qureshi had arrived on Tuesday on a two-day visit. Qureshi told Shoukry that Pakistan considered Egypt …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan’s planned address to the Sri Lankan parliament, during his upcoming visit to the island country, has been cancelled. Mr Khan is scheduled to travel to Colombo on a two-day trip from Feb 22. Besides his meetings with Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and attending an investors’ conference, he was to …

DADU: A three-year-old minor girl was subjected to rape and left battling for life in Chhano Shahabad mohalla here on Wednesday. The child, daughter of a labourer, was admitted to Dadu Civil Hospital in critical condition while police immediately arrested the rape suspect. Dadu SSP Aijaz Ahmed Shaikh, who arrived at the hospital to enquire after the victim’s health, told …

YANGON: Myanmar’s anti-coup protesters returned to the streets in force on Wednesday, staging the biggest demonstrations since troops fanned out around the country to quell opposition to the new military junta. Much of the country has been in open revolt since the military deposed Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s government at the start of the month and charged her …

A day after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) received flak from the apex court during the hearing of a presidential reference on the use of open ballots in the upcoming Senate elections, Justice Ijazul Ahsan on Wednesday told the body that the vote in Senate polls “cannot remain secret forever”. During the hearing on Tuesday, the five-judge Supreme Court bench, headed …

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has directed the departments concerned to take immediate steps to make the newly established Hangu prison functional within a month and prepare PC-I for construction of access road to tourist spot Samana. He was presiding over a meeting to review progress on various developmental projects in southern districts of the province, said an official statement …

PESHAWAR: With only three members in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, Jamaat-i-Islami, a component of the now defunct Mutahidda Majlis-i-Amal, holds its cards close to its chest as other political parties have made a beeline, seeking its support for the upcoming Senate polls. Jamaat-i-Islami has nominated four candidates from the province on all category seats for the Senate elections scheduled for March …