ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Saturday said that India was attempting to mislead the world over the situation in occupied Kashmir through ‘guided tours’. FO Spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, while responding to media queries about the visit of Delhi-based foreign diplomats to occupied Kashmir, said: “Such guided tours to the occupied territory and meetings with hand-picked people are designed to …

WASHINGTON: Dr Agha Saeed, a Pakistani-American scholar, an author and an expert on Kashmir and Palestine, passed away on Friday in Monterey, California, his family announced. Dr Saeed, 73, was born in Quetta, and was a graduate of the Punjab University. He earned his MA and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and was also an exchange scholar …

BEIRUT: A wave of air strikes by government ally Russia killed at least 21 Islamic State group jihadists in the Syrian desert over the past 24 hours, a monitor said on Saturday. The 21 were killed in at least 130 air strikes “carried out over the past 24 hours by the Russian air force targeting the militant Islamic State group” …

YANGON: Two people were killed in Myanmar’s second largest city as security forces fired live rounds on protestors, emergency workers and doctors said on Saturday — the latest show of force from a junta regime that has faced two straight weeks of anti-coup demonstrations. Much of the country has been in uproar since the military deposed civilian leader Aung San …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan-Turkey counter-terrorism drills codenamed Ataturk-XI 2021 concluded on Saturday. The three-week-long exercises held at Tarbela were participated by special forces of Pakistan and Turkey. According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the drills included cordon and search techniques, built-up area clearance with combat aviation support and hostage rescue. The participating troops also practised free fall …

ISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faez Isa on Saturday hoped and prayed that the Supreme Court would stand unwaveringly against all manners of constitutional violations and safeguard the people against misuse of power. In a strongly worded 28-page dissenting note, Justice Faez Isa also expressed the hope that unstructured discretion would be curtailed since it had neither served any institution nor the …

WASHINGTON: A Pakista­­ni soldier, Lance Naik Tahir Ikram, died in Sudan on Saturday when his truck met with an accident in the South Darfur region, Pakistan’s UN Mission announced. Tahir Ikram was associated with the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and was driving a mission truck when he had the accident. He was a member of the UNAMID’s …

ile ISLAMABAD: 4G service has finally reached South Waziristan a month after Prime Minister Imran Khan announced the launch of internet service in the tribal areas allowing residents, particularly students, to have access to high-speed internet through cellular service. As part of the government’s plan to empower the region along with other districts of former Federally Adminis­te­red Tribal Areas (Fata), …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Senate candidates from Islamabad, federal finance minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh and Fauzia Arshad, along with some other federal ministers arrived in Lahore on Saturday for their election campaign. The Senate candidates held a meeting with Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar at the Governor House and discussed the upcoming polls, to ensure that the PTI and allied …

ISLAMABAD: Representatives of lawyers’ associations on Saturday demanded reconstruction of chambers demolished by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the district administration in an anti-encroachment operation on Feb 8. The demand came in a joint resolution passed by representatives of Pakistan Bar Council, Supreme Court Bar Association, Islamabad Bar Council, Punjab Bar Council, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council, Sindh Bar Council …