ISTANBUL: Turkey on Wednesday blamed the EU for seating arrangements that left European Commi­ssion chief Ursula von der Leyen without a chair during a meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan and Turkish officials came under a torrent of criticism after images went viral of his meeting on Tuesday with von der Leyen and European Council president Charles Michel in …

PESHAWAR: The traffic police of the provincial capital have launched a YouTube channel to educate road users about traffic rules and update them on traffic situation on the local roads. Chief Traffic Officer Abbas Ahsan launched the channel during a special ceremony at the traffic police’s headquarters here. He said the YouTube channel would telecast programmes in both Urdu and …

RAWALPINDI: There was a sudden increase in the number of travellers at the Islamabad International Airport on Thursday who wanted to reach the United Kingdom before the deadline of April 9 as the Pakistan International Airlines completed its flight operations with 13 chartered planes to send about 3,000 Pakistanis. The PIA arranged chartered flights from different countries on short notice …

Police in occupied Kashmir have asked journalists to refrain from live coverage of gun battles with fighters opposing Indian rule in the region or protests, calling such reports a provocation amounting to interference in their duties. India has deployed tens of thousands of police and soldiers to keep the peace in the occupied region after revoking its constitutional autonomy in 2019 to …

India and Pakistan may stumble into a large-scale war neither side wants, warns a US intelligence report while exploring the possibilities of miscalculations leading to a war in South Asia. The assessment is included in a Global Trends report produced every four years by the US government’s National Intelligence Council, released in Washington. The report, released on Wednesday, focuses on …

Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth and a leading figure in the British royal family for almost seven decades, has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace said on Friday. The Duke of Edinburgh, as he was officially known, had been by his wife’s side throughout her 69-year reign, the longest in British history, during which time he earned a reputation for …

ISLAMABAD: Female teachers working in various schools of Islamabad under the wedlock policy have expressed reservations about a committee constituted to examine their service. A single-member bench of Islamabad High Court (IHC), comprising Chief Justice Athar Minallah, took up petitions filed by the deputationst teachers for hearing on Thursday. The petitioners’ counsel argued before the court that Saqib Shahab director …

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday censured PML-N MNA Javed Latif for making statements against the country and state institutions. LHC Chief Justice Muhammad Qasim Khan presided over a hearing on Latif’s petition asking the court to quash “illegal” cases against him. Latif had been booked by police in March on charges of committing treason and incitement against the state. A …

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday filed an intra-court appeal challenging the dismissal of a petition against the rejection of his seven votes in the election to the office of Senate chairman. Mr Gilani filed the appeal in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the judgement of its single-judge bench. IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah had …

LAHORE: Widening its probe into the multi-billion sugar scam, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has initiated action against two mills in which federal minister Khusro Bakhtiar and his family members have major shares. The Lahore FIA on Thursday summoned the heads of accounts and sales of the Two-Star Sugar Mills and Alliance Sugar Mills, owned by Rahim Yar Khan sugar …