ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said the recent statement of Genocide Watch founding president and chairman Dr Gregory Stanton regarding Muslims’ genocide in India is endorsement of Pakistan’s stance and viewpoint. Pakistan had expressed its concerns over the matter at several international forums, but the situation was further deteriorating in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K), said FM …

ISLAMABAD: The Afghan government and the Taliban have resolved key sticking points that had stalled peace talks for weeks, several sources said on Friday, clearing the way for negotiations to move forward. Talks started on Sept 12 in the Qatari capital Doha but almost immediately faltered over disagreements about the agenda, the basic framework of discussions and religious interpretations. However, …

BERLIN: German police have arrested a 41-year-old man on suspicion of cannibalism after they found a pile of bones stripped completely of flesh in a Berlin suburb. Berlin prosecutors said on Friday they are “investigating at full speed to shed light on the sexual murder with suspicion of a cannibalistic background”. The man was arrested on Wednesday in connection with …

Here’s something to look forward to this weekend: South Korean megaband BTS have released their latest album BE and will perform the new single “Life Goes On” remotely for the 2020 American Music Awards tomorrow. The video for the new single, in signature BTS style, garnered an amazing number of views in the first 24 hours on YouTube. The seven-member boy band …

RAWALPINDI: Egyptian Ambassador Tarek Mohamed Dahroug on Friday called on Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and appreciated Pakistan’s efforts for regional peace and stability. During the meeting, matters of mutual interest, regional security and cooperation in all fields of defence and security came under discussion, said the director general of Inter-Services Public Relations, Maj Gen Babar …

BAKU: Azerbaijan said on Friday its troops entered a district bordering Nagorno-Karabakh handed back by Armenian separatists as part of a Russian-brokered peace deal to end weeks of fighting in the region. Troops moved into the district of Aghdam, one of three to be ceded, the Azerbaijan defence ministry said, a day after columns of Armenian soldiers and tanks rolled …

if ISLAMABAD: Justice Umar Ata Bandial will take up on Wednesday (Nov 25) a set of four appeals filed by former president Asif Ali Zardari challenging a decision by the Supreme Court’s registrar to return his plea in which he had sought transfer of corruption references from Islamabad to an accountability court in Karachi. On Nov 14, senior counsel Senator …

LAHORE: The data entry system of the Punjab government has become embroiled in a controversy after an audit report revealed that nearly 300 Covid-19 deaths caused by the pandemic went ‘unreported’ in the province. Of them 145 deaths occurred in Lahore, 42 in Rawalpindi and 29 in Multan. In the related disturbing report, the positivity rate of the virus in …

RAWALPINDI: Due to the recent spike in coronavirus cases, Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has chalked out fresh standard operating procedures (SOPs) for international travellers. According to the authority, an updated list of countries for categories A, B and C has been approved for which these SOPs will be valid till Dec 31; RT-PCR tests of passengers from countries that have …

RAWALPINDI: Police and the District Intelligence Committee (DIC) have sent the names of 14 individuals to the Home Department to place them on the fourth schedule of Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) for their involvement in unlawful activities. According to sources, 25 individuals have already been on the fourth schedule in the Rawalpindi district and with the latest addition the number of …