The United States is closely monitoring border disputes between India and China and backs their peaceful resolution through direct dialogue, the State Department said on Tuesday, while stressing that it stands with allies and partners like India. “We note the ongoing talks between the governments of India and China,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told a news briefing. “We continue …

A divided US Senate voted largely along party lines on Tuesday to move ahead with Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on a charge of inciting the deadly assault on the Capitol, but conviction appears unlikely barring a major shift among Republicans. The Senate voted 56-44 to proceed to the first-ever trial of a former president, rejecting his defence lawyers’ argument that Trump was …

SHANGLA: The Shangla police claim to have arrested a wanted terrorist during a raid in Karachi. A statement issued here on Tuesday, said Abdul Satar of Lilonai, an alleged Taliban commander, had carried out attacks on police and government installations, and managed to escape to Karachi, where he had been living along with his family for last 14 years. It …

PESHAWAR: There is not a single oxygen plant in the entire Khyber Pakhtunkhwa despite the fact that provincial government spends billions of rupees on improving healthcare system. The health department has set aside billions of rupees to cope with Covid-19 but it has ignored the issue of shortage of oxygen plant, according to doctors. “Management of seriously-ill Covid-19 patients in …

PESHAWAR: National Accountability Bureau chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal on Tuesday promised the anti-corruption watchdog’s complete cooperation to the single-member Broadsheet Inquiry Commission regarding the UK-based asset recovery company’s revelations about corruption and money laundering in Pakistan and said the current NAB administration had nothing do with the Broadsheet issue. During a visit to the NAB regional headquarters here, Mr …

KHYBER: Khyber Qaumi Jirga (KQJ) has demanded immediate separation of tribal districts from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, saying the merger has pushed the region into further backwardness and deprivation. The demand was made during a jirga held in Jamrud on Tuesday that was attended by tribal elders of Khyber, Mohmand and Darra Adamkhel with KQJ chief Malak Bismillah Khan in the chair. …

ISLAMABAD: While 1,008 Covid-19 cases and 40 deaths were reported across the country in a single day, the number of active cases has dropped by around 20,000 over the last two months. The number of active cases, which had reached 50,000 by the end of November 2020, dropped to 31,510 on Tuesday. It is the second time that active cases …

KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines claimed on Tuesday that it had paid compensation to the families of 20 victims at Rs10 million per deceased person, and said it was still waiting for succession certificates from 77 families to complete the process and bring the chapter to a close. This was stated at a press conference by PIA chief Arshad Malik with …

KARACHI: The administrative judge of the antiterrorism courts on Tuesday remanded five foreigners held for allegedly working for the Afghan and Indian intelligence agencies in police custody. The Counter-Terrorism Department on Monday claimed to have foiled a major terrorist activity in the metropolis by arresting five Afghan nationals for having links with Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) and India’s …

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that if a prisoner on death row is unable to comprehend the rationale behind their punishment due to a mental illness, then carrying out the death sentence does not “meet the ends of justice”. The apex court announced the verdict after reserving its judgement on a point whether mentally ill death-row prisoners can be …