A Russian warship fired warning shots and a warplane dropped bombs on Wednesday to force a British destroyer from an area in the Black Sea near Crimea that Russia claims as its territorial waters. The incident marked the first time since the Cold War that Moscow has used live ammunition to deter a Nato warship, reflecting growing risks of military …

PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Imran Khan had no right to comment on Pakistan’s nuclear programme. Speaking to the media in Islamabad, Maryam was referring to an interview of the prime minister on Axios on HBO, wherein he had said earlier this week that “the moment there is a settlement on Kashmir, the two neighbours [India and Pakistan] would live …

ISLAMABAD: The lowest number of deaths and cases of coronavirus infections was reported on Tuesday in the country for over eight months. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 27 deaths and 663 cases of Covid-19 were reported in a single day. On October 20 last year, 660 cases were reported. The number of active cases, which had …

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has no justification to keep Pakistan on its grey list. In a statement carried by Radio Pakistan, Qureshi said Pakistan had completed the FATF’s technical requirements. “We had been given 27 points in the FATF Action Plan, out of which work on 26 has been completed,” he …

Suspected Taliban fighters fired a rocket into a hospital in Afghanistan on Wednesday, sparking a blaze that caused extensive damage and destroyed Covid-19 vaccines though there were no reports of casualties, government officials said. In northern Afghanistan, the Taliban captured the town of Shir Khan Bandar, a dry port on the border with Tajikistan, sending customs workers and members of …

KARACHI: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CJP) announced on Monday that it would honour Jimmy Lai, the imprisoned founder of Hong Kong’s Next Digital media company and Apple Daily newspaper, with the 2021 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award. Jimmy Lai — who will be honored at the CPJ’s 2021 International Press Freedom Awards on November 18, 2021 — has become a powerful …

RAWALPINDI: A suspect detained by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)’s anti-human trafficking circle in Islamabad was found hanged in the toilet of its lock-up on Tuesday. The FIA claimed that the suspect committed suicide by hanging himself with a waistband. However, FIA Director Waqar Chohan suspended the station house officer (SHO) of the FIA along with three other officials who …

ISLAMABAD: For the first time the government has disclosed the details of budgetary allocations not only for Islamabad police but also for the premium civil intelligence agency of the country – Intelligence Bureau (IB). The budget documents show separate allocations for various wings of the capital police, including police stations, investigation wing and the Special Branch. The interior ministry has …

ISLAMABAD: Formulation of the single national curriculum (SNC) is a historic initiative, introduced to eliminate Pakistan’s long standing class-based education system, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Education in response to objections being raised by various quarters on the SNC. It has been highlighted in the statement that a campaign against the SNC has been started that …

ISLAMABAD: Taking exception to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s recent remarks about the country’s nuclear deterrence, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) alleged on Tuesday that the cricketer-turned-politician was brought to power to fulfill the “foreign agenda” of rolling back the nuclear programme. “Who has given the right to this prime minister to say that Pakistan’s nuclear programme is negotiable,” wondered Ahsan …