LONDON: Prestigious Chatham House Building in London is set to witness a panel discussion on the issue of Kashmir, bringing together leading voices from Pakistan, India and the United Kingdom. The conference is titled “The cost to Britain of the Kashmir Crisis – is there a solution?” and it will be held on 7 November. Chinoy Group is sponsoring the …

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon said Friday it was awarding a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft, following a highly scrutinized bidding process which Amazon had been favored to win. The 10-year contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure program, better known as JEDI, ultimately will see all military branches sharing information in one system that can be scoured in real …

Cabo de Santo: A boy walks ashore in Brazil in filthy waist-high water with a look of exasperation and his body smeared in oil, a photographer takes a shot, and the image goes viral. On October 21, an AFP stringer at Itapuama beach in Cabo de Santo Agostinho, in Pernambuco state, snapped the picture as the child emerged from the …

WASHINGTON: The United Nations and the United States are both urging India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir dispute through dialogue, as concerns about tensions in a nuclear-armed region grow. “When you have two nuclear powers that have fought military conflicts under a nuclear umbrella, it is important that all avenues be explored to increase contact and communication between the …

KARACHI: Twitter has blocked nearly a million tweets from accounts that focus on Kashmir at the behest of the Indian government, according to an investigation carried out by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). According to the report published on Friday by the CPJ — an independent organisation working to promote press freedom worldwide — hundreds of thousands of tweets …

KARACHI: A Chinese firm has shown interest in resolving water shortage problems in Karachi, including K-IV phase II and phase III while Dutch investors are keen to work in food processing industry in Sindh. This was the outcome of two separate meetings held between Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and a Chinese state-owned company, Energy China, delegation led …

RAWALPINDI: DG ISPR Major General Asif Ghafoor slammed Indian army chief General Bipin Rawat’s statement on Azad Kashmir by referring to the Indian Army as a ‘rogue force’, on Friday. Taking to Twitter, the DG ISPR criticized Gen. Bipin Rawat and accused him of ‘repeatedly provoking war through irresponsible statements’. “Indian COAS repeatedly provoking war through irresponsible statements endangering regional …