Democrat Joe Biden said he was going to win the United States presidency as his lead grew over President Donald Trump in battleground states, although television networks held off from declaring him the victor as officials continued to count votes. “The numbers tell us […] it’s a clear and convincing story: We’re going to win this race,” Biden said late …

NEW DELHI: India’s top military commander said on Friday a tense border standoff with Chinese forces in the western Himalayas could spark a larger conflict, even as senior commanders from both sides met near the frontline for their eighth round of talks. Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat said the situation was tense at the Line of Actual Control, the …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday sought an affidavit from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) that officials working on deputation in the bureau had been repatriated to their parent departments without any discrimination. IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah, however, observed that apparently NAB overlooked the international standards while inducting the investigation officers adding that NAB’s investigation officer must …

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League (PML) President and former prime minister Chaudhry Shujat Hussain was shifted to the Services Hospital with chest infection on Friday. Prime Minister Imran Khan, former president Asif Zardari and other national leaders telephoned his family to inquire about his health whereas Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar visited the hospital. In his telephonic conversation with his son …

KARACHI: Representa­tives of civil society and human rights activists, who had filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking formation of a judicial commission to inquire into the Oct 19 alleged kidnapping of inspector general of Sindh police, have expressed their disappointment that the apex court’s registrar’s office returned their petition on various grounds on Oct 29. In a joint …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has criticised the government for declaring a local holiday on Saturday (today) in Hafizabad to facilitate the masses to attend a public meeting Prime Minister Imran Khan is scheduled to address. PML-N general secretary Ahsan Iqbal said the Punjab government was going the extra mile to help the prime minister start his so-called mass contact …

GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court on Friday ordered Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, federal minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Ali Amin Gandapur and other public office holders to leave the region within 72 hours for violating the code of conduct for elections. The order was passed on PPP Gilgit-Baltistan vice president Jamil Ahmed’s petition with the GB …

LAHORE: Calls for action against police grew louder a couple of days after a grower from Burewala was killed allegedly by law enforcers during the protest at Thokar Niaz Baig. Insisting that one of their protesting colleagues had died due to torture and use of contaminated water by the police, farmers have demanded arrest of the police officer who had …

SWAT: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan on Friday termed the Sehat Sahulat Programme a flagship and pro-poor scheme of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, saying the project was another major step towards realisation of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s vision of a welfare state. He was addressing a public meeting here in the Grassy Ground where Prime Minister Imran Khan formally launched the …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday appreciated an accomplished British-American mountaineer Vanessa O’Brien for promoting Pakistan as goodwill ambassador. The renowned mountain climber met Army Chief who appreciated her for her achievements and promoting Pakistan. “Ms Vanessa O’Brien met #COAS. She is the only woman ever to climb 2 the world’s highest pt Mount Everest & dive …