SEOUL: North Korea showed off a gigantic new intercontinental ballistic missile on Saturday that analysts described as the largest of its kind in the world, as the nuclear-armed country defied the coronavirus threat with thousands of maskless troops taking part in a military parade. The ICBM, carried on a transporter-erector-launcher with no fewer than 11 axles, rolled through Kim Il …

WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has voted in the nations general election, two weeks before polls officially close. Ardern cast her vote in her Auckland district after visiting a market in the heavily Polynesian south Auckland suburb of Otara, where she was thronged by supporters. Ardern’s Labour Party has governed since the 2017 general election, when it was …

NEW DELHI: Afghanistan’s chief peace envoy said on Saturday that India’s civil and military leaderships are supportive of an inclusive, peaceful settlement of the Afghan peace process and that Kabul’s interactions with New Delhi are expected to further deepen in the coming weeks and months. In an interview in the Indian capital, Abdullah Abdullah said that while the issue of …

WASHINGTON: Nine days after testing positive for Covid-19, US President Donald Trump was readying to host hundreds of partisans at the White House on Saturday, in hopes of relaunching his struggling campaign less than four weeks from Election Day. Trump has declared he is feeling “really good” — but doubts linger over his health, with the president’s doctor appearing more concerned about …

United States President Donald Trump is no longer contagious, nine days after being stopped in his tracks by Covid-19, his physician said in a statement released late on Saturday. “I am happy to report that in addition to the President meeting CDC criteria for the safe discontinuation of isolation, this morning’s Covid PCR sample demonstrates, by currently recognised standards, he is …

ISLAMABAD: Four weeks after regular activities resumed in the federal capital, the local administration on Saturday decided to reimpose a ‘mini smart lockdown’ in various areas after an increase in Covid-19 cases was reported in the city. The order was issued by the national health services (NHS) ministry under whi­ch a number of streets wou­ld be sealed on Sunday morning. …

hah LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government has come out to support the rebel PML-N MPAs, while sarcastically explaining the opposition party’s “voteko izzat do” narrative, and reinforcing apprehensions that the ruling party may be looking to create a forward bloc. Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Political Communication Dr Shahbaz Gill on Saturday visited Lahore and defended PML-N’s rebel MPA …

CHITRAL: Renowned car and motorcycle stuntman Sultan Mohammad Golden is these days at the centre of a controversy and also engaged in a legal battle here after he married a minor girl who is around 12 as per her school record. Official sources and documents available with Dawn revealed that father of the girl, Samreen Sahar, had concealed her school certificate and …

ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has deputed two officers at the level of a director general to address public complaints and restore ‘Islamabad the Beautiful’. Both officials have been made answerable to the authority’s members finance and engineering to ensure their decisions are implemented promptly. CDA Chairman Amer Ali Ahmed said that Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed for …

LAHORE: The reshuffle of senior police officers continued in Punjab on Saturday, as Inspector General of Police Inam Ghani transferred six more deputy inspectors generals (DIGs) and 68 deputy superintendents of police (DSPs). The Punjab government has so far reshuffled over 200 police officers in the province, since the opposition parties announced a country-wide ‘agitational movement’. Under the prevailing political …