International

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has found that Pakistan has successfully complied with 21 out of 27 points of action and decided to keep the country on its ‘grey list’ until February 2021, the watchdog’s president said on Friday. FATF President Marcus Pleyer announced the decision at a virtual press conference held after the body’s three-day plenary session came …

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said conditions are not conducive for talks with India due to its actions in occupied Kashmir. “As far as dialogue is concerned, my honest opinion is that I don’t see the atmosphere for talks,” Mr Qureshi told reporters on Friday. He said some people desired talks to happen, but the situation in India-occupied …

UNITED NATIONS: Pakis­tan has urged the internatio­nal community to ensure that the stolen assets of developing countries are fully returned to them. In a statement before the Sixth Committee, a primary legal forum of the UN General Assembly, Pakistan on Thurs­day also demanded manda­tory frameworks to counter ill practices, such as profit shifting to avoid taxation. “The figures of stolen …

GENEVA: Libya’s two warring factions signed a “permanent” ceasefire agreement on Friday after five days of talks at the United Nations, which hailed the deal as a historic moment following years of turmoil and bloodshed. “Today is a good day for the Libyan people,” said Stephanie Williams, the UN’s acting envoy to the troubled North African country, where a UN-recognised …

MUNICH: A sheaf of papers, scrawled with notes in a vigorous hand, here and there a recognisable phrase: “the Jewish problem”, “work, sacrifice” — these are Adolf Hitler’s speaking notes, which went under the hammer at a Munich auction house on Friday. The collection of post-1919 historical artefacts at Munich’s Hermann Historica auctioneers has attracted attention because of the presence …

KARACHI: In her first press conference after being released from detention of 14 months, the chief of Occupied Kashmir’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti said she would raise the Indian flag only when Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K) flag, constitution and special status (under Article 370) were restored. She also said on Friday that “those who feel we have abandoned …

STOCKHOLM: The EU’s disease control agency on Friday joined frantic health workers across Europe in sounding the alarm about the surge in coronavirus infections. Several countries in Europe are reporting infection rates higher than during the first wave of the pandemic in March and April, with Spain saying it has now more than three million cases. Governments across the continent …

SARAJEVO: Danish aid workers stationed in the Balkans say dozens of migrants have alleged they were brutalised by Croatian law-enforcement officers when they tried to cross into the European Union nation, before being summarily expelled back to Bosnia. Nicola Bay, the head of the Danish Refugee Council in Bosnia, said on Friday that 149 migrants of varying nationalities, independently interviewed …

Prime Minister Imran Khan and President Dr Arif Alvi on Saturday urged the United Nations to exercise its authority and implement the Security Council resolutions in occupied Kashmir. The president and the premier issued separate statements for United Nations Day which marks the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the UN Charter. This year marks the 75th …

New clashes broke out between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces over Nagorno-Karabakh a day after talks in Washington to try to end the deadliest fighting in the mountain enclave in more than a quarter of a century. Azerbaijan’s defence ministry reported fighting in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, a part of Azerbaijan populated and controlled by ethnic Armenians. Local officials accused Azerbaijan’s forces of …