US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that the United States will vie for a seat at the UN’s human rights body, which would cement a US return to the Geneva-based body that was shunned by the Trump administration. The top US diplomat said the US would seek a three-year term starting next year at the Human Rights …

Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Wednesday that the only way forward for the subcontinent is to resolve existing issues through dialogue. “Immediately when I came into power, I approached our neighbour India and explained to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the way forward for the subcontinent is to resolve our differences through dialogue. “I didn’t succeed but I am …

CAPE CANAVERAL: Nasa on Monday released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer showing the enormous orange and white parachute hurtling open and the red dust kicking up as rocket engines lowered the rover to the surface. The footage was so good and the images so breathtaking that members of the rover team said …

DADU: An 11-year-old girl was subjected to criminal assault in a street of Khatri village, some seven kilometres from Khairpur Nathan Shah town, by two suspects on Tuesday. She was admitted to the KN Shah Taluka Hospital for emergency treatment. Belonging to a peasant family, the girl was grabbed as she came out of her house to play in the …

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday granted bail to Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz in a money laundering case, ordering the jail authorities to release him after the submission of bail bonds. A two-judge bench of the LHC announced the order after the counsel for the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) completed his arguments in today’s hearing. …

ISLAMABAD: Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Khalid Jawed Khan on Tuesday feared that the entire exercise of hearing the presidential reference on open ballot for coming Senate elections by the Supreme Court would turn academic if the proceedings were not closed by Wednesday (today). Otherwise, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) would not be left with ample time to complete …

TAXILA: The fact that India claims to be a large democracy is false and merely an attempt to hoodwink the international community, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Mohammad Farooq Haider Khan said on Tuesday. Addressing participants of a public meeting in Wah Cantt, PM Haider said: “India is a terrorist state with an aggressive posture and expansionist …

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that Pakistan has “shifted its geo-political priorities into geo-economic priorities”, while speaking about Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to Sri Lanka. The foreign minister was briefing the media about the premier’s maiden visit to Colombo. Qureshi said that Pakistan has offered a credit line of $15 million to Sri Lanka for defence and security …

The PML-N has submitted a petition to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), demanding a re-election in the entire NA-75 constituency instead of 20 polling stations, the party’s vice president Maryam Nawaz told the media on Wednesday, adding that agencies falling under the premier were involved in the rigging. While speaking to the media in Lahore, Maryam accused the ruling …

ISLAMABAD: As Pakis­tan continues to see a fall in Covid-19 cases, a website has placed the country on the 29th position in the list of 30 countries that have conducted the most number of tests per million population (PMP). The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has, meanwhile, recorded 1,050 patients who contracted the virus and 41 deaths over the …