NAQOURA: After a nearly six-month pause, Lebanon and Israel on Tuesday resumed indirect talks with US mediation over their disputed maritime border. The resumption comes after a new US administration took over. Lebanon has sunk deeper into it economic and financial crisis that started in late 2019 a culmination of decades of corruption and mismanagement by the political class. The …

KANDAHAR: Thousands of Afghans started to flee their homes as fierce fighting erupted between government forces and the Taliban in Helmand province on Monday after the US military began withdrawing its remaining troops from Afghanistan, officials said. Afghan forces claimed pushing back the Taliban on multiple checkpoints in the southern province of Helmand, where the US military handed over a …

India’s coronavirus deaths rose by a record 3,780 during the last 24 hours, a day after it became the second country to cross the grim milestone of 20 million infections after the United States. Daily infections rose by 382,315 on Wednesday, health ministry data showed. Government modelling had pointed to a peak by Wednesday, a few days earlier than thought, since the …

RAWALPINDI: Residents of the city experienced record 70 incidents of street crimes in a single day on Monday, including 19 robberies, 17 motorcycle, 5 cars and other vehicles theft and 27 burglaries and mobile phone snatching. Majority of the robberies and mobile phone snatching were committed by motorcycle riders. Ms Shamila Kasur, resident of Kahuta, complained to the Civil Lines …

PESHAWAR: Police have booked two sitting members of provincial assembly for storming Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) and attacking doctors and nurses there. The FIR has been registered at Hayatabad police station against Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) lawmaker Nighat Orakzai and Shafiq Sher Afridi, Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) member from Khyber tribal district. The FIR has been registered under section 186, …

KHYBER: Gunmen killed three persons, including a woman of their family, for honour in Tirah valley of the Khyber tribal district on Tuesday. Police officials said the incident took place in Peer Mela locality of Zakhakhel. They said armed men shot dead a private schoolteacher while he was on way home on a motorcycle. Another teacher riding the pillion was …

ISLAMABAD: City managers have decided to move out a landfill site from residential I-12 while 21 Ehsaas bazaars for cart holders will be set up in various parts of the city. Capital Development Authority (CDA) officials, during a meeting, decided to move out the landfill site from I-12. It was also decided that the sector will be developed. Sources said …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved appointment of Establishment Division Secretary Dr Ijaz Munir as rector of the National School of Public Policy (NSPP) and new Establishment Division secretary will be picked from among three senior bureaucrats. The panel for the post of NSPP rector comprised five senior bureaucrats. Besides Dr Munir, Rabiya Javeri Agha, Mirza Suhail Aamir, Shoaib …

ISLAMABAD: A man was gunned down for breaking an engagement in capital’s rural area. The man, identified as Faisal was gunned down in D-12/3 over breaking an engagement, they added. Faisal was engaged with a daughter of his friend, the police said, adding that however he broke the engagement and as a result, his friend, along with his Afghan wife …

ISLAMABAD: Though the twin cities has been witnessing a downward trend in Covid-19 cases for the last couple of days, there was no let-up in casualties as five more died from the virus in both the cites. The capital saw 283 infections and two deaths. Officials of the capital administration said both the deaths were of men and in the …