NEW DELHI: A German student, who participated in protests against India’s controversial Citizenship Amendment Act in Chennai, was asked to leave on Monday by the Bureau of Immigration officials. According to a report in the Hindu, Jakob Lindenthal, a student from the Technical University of Dresden on an exchange programme at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, was informed that he had been …

RIYADH: A Saudi court verdict exonerating the crown prince’s top aides over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been condemned globally as a travesty of justice, but won the backing of key ally Washington. Five unnamed people were sentenced to death on Monday while three others were handed jail terms totalling 24 years over the killing of the Washington Post columnist …

UNITED NATIONS: “Rather than respond with force and epithets, as he has so far, (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi would do well to abandon this misguided project of Hindu nationalism,” The Washington Post suggested on Tuesday, two days after hundreds protested outside the Indian Embassy against their country’s new citizenship law. India Abroad, the largest newspaper of the Indian diaspora in the United …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) Punjab president Qamar Zaman Kaira on Tuesday said that despite the federal government’s effort to create hurdles in the way of a public meeting in Rawalpindi, the party was granted permission by the Lahore High Court (LHC) to continue its preparation to observe the death anniversary of Benazir Bhutto at Liaquat Bagh on Dec 27. …

ISLAMABAD: A petition has been filed in the Islamabad High Court against an interior ministry notification banning social media accounts belonging to senior capital administration officials. The petition was filed by a citizen, Mohammad Awais, on Tuesday. It asked for the notification, which was sent to the heads of the ministry’s 22 subordinate organisations across the country, to be set …

LAHORE: The Punjab Cabinet on Tuesday approved Education Professionals Standards Council Bill (2018) and provision of Urdu medium books to the students of government schools, clearing way for Urdu to be medium of instruction and English be taught as a subject. The 22nd meeting of the provincial cabinet held at Civil Secretariat with Chief Minister Usman Buzdar in the chair, …

PESHAWAR: The government deferred a bill related to Muslim family laws during consideration stage in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Tuesday after religious parties expressed reservations about the amended draft of the proposed law. The Muslim Family Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019, was in the consideration stage when lawmaker of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) Inayatullah Khan raised objections to the amended draft …

ISLAMABAD: Only 11 ministries and divisions of the federal government have yet to adopt the e-office system, but they are committed to its implementation by the end of next year subject to the release of funds by the finance ministry, the National Assembly Standing Committee on Infor­ma­tion Technology and Telecommunications was told on Tuesday. Officials of the National Information Technology …

PESHAWAR: Inspector General of Police, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dr Mohammad Naeem Khan on Tuesday said his department was reviewing the Fourth Schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act and would complete the exercise in two weeks. “We are rationalising Schedule-IV as it has some unwanted names but doesn’t have those, which should be there,” he told reporters at the central police office here. …

SUKKUR: PPP leader Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah was brought to the National Accountability Bureau court, Sukkur, from the NICVD Hospital on Tuesday in an ambulance while his one wife, son and a nephew (son-in-law) also appeared in the court, which was hearing a reference filed against him and his 17 co-accused for allegedly making assets beyond his known sources of …