WASHINGTON: Former US secretary of state George Shultz, a titan of American academia, business and diplomacy who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve Cold War relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in the Middle East, died on Saturday. He was 100. Schultz died at his home on the campus of Stanford University, where …

Myanmar’s generals issued a stern warning on Monday against further protests as an uprising against their coup gathered pace, with hundreds of thousands on the streets demanding the release of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The junta has so far refrained from using deadly force to quell the demonstrations sweeping most of the country, but with pressure building, riot police fired …

NEW DELHI: At least 200 people were missing in northern India after a piece of Himalayan glacier fell into a river, causing a torrent that buried two power plants and swept away roads and bridges, police said on Sunday. Three bodies were found and a desperate operation was launched to rescue about 17 people trapped in a tunnel, the Uttarakhand …

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday will appoint an administrator for running the affairs of the Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI), which is going to complete its five-year term on Feb 15. The cabinet, which is slated to meet on Tuesday (tomorrow), will give approval for the appointment of the administrator for the MCI and its 50 union councils. During its …

ISLAMABAD: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), which sits on the opposition benches but not as part of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), on Sunday submitted separate resolutions to both the houses of parliament seeking disapproval of the controversial presidential ordinance on open Senate vote promulgated by the government on Saturday. The resolution in the Senate Secretariat was submitted by JI emir Sirajul …

ISLAMABAD: As majority of the frontline healthcare workers in the federal capital have adopted a ‘wait and see’ approach to get themselves vaccinated against Covid-19, only 34 so far received the vaccine since campaign was launched by Prime Minister Imran Khan on Feb 2. However, District Health Officer Dr Zaeem Zia expressed the hope that a large number of healthcare …

NOWSHERA: Federal Minister for Defence Pervez Khan Khattak has said that Pakistan Democratic Movement chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif and former president Asif Ali Zardari will be behind bars soon. He was addressing different public gatherings in Meetakhel Kheshgi Bala and Payan where new power feeders were inaugurated. He said that Maulana Fazlur Rehman should …

GUJRAT: The mainstream opposition parties think that the PTI government can only hold the local polls under pressure of the Supreme Court as the situation is not favourable to take such a risk amid “poor state of economy and bad governance”. Some senior party leaders of the PPP and the PML-N also hint at the option of contesting jointly from …

Lawyers wreaked havoc on the Islamabad High Court building on Monday as they protested over the destruction of their chambers by the Capital Development Authority last night. Lawyers barged into the Chief Justice Block and broke windows and chanted slogans against IHC CJ Athar Minallah outside his chamber, trapping him inside. The IHC top judge was inside his chamber at …

KARACHI: Expressing serious reservations over the Elections (Amendment) Ordinance 2021 that the government promulgated just two days after abandoning its efforts to get the constitution amendment bill for ‘open vote’ in the coming Senate elections passed through the National Assembly, opposition parties have said the government is pushing the country towards a constitutional crisis. In separate but similar reaction, senior …