WASHINGTON: National Security Adviser (NSA) Moeed Yusuf and the Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed, reached the US capital on Tuesday for talks with their American counterparts on Afghanistan and other issues of bilateral interests. Mr Yusuf’s meeting with his American counterpart Jake Sullivan will focus on the issues the two NSAs discussed in their first …

Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the United States “really messed it up in Afghanistan” as he questioned the American motive of Afghan invasion in the first place and then their subsequent attempts of seeking a political solution with the Taliban from a position of weakness. The prime minister’s remarks come as the US military and Nato are in …

SEOUL: North and South Korea exchanged messages on Tuesday in communication channels that have been dormant for more than a year and agreed to improve ties positive steps but ones that still leave any resumption of stalled negotiations to rid the North of its nuclear weapons a long way off. Liaison officials from the Koreas had several phone conversations including …

QUETTA: Taliban, who captured the Afghan border district of Spin Boldak early this month, on Tuesday imposed new tariff and started collecting taxes on goods coming into Afghanistan or going to Pakistan, a day after Pakistan reopened the border for trade activities after a suspension of over two weeks because of the fighting between Taliban and Afghan security troops. The …

WASHINGTON: Wiping away tears, a police officer told a rapt US congressional hearing on Tuesday he believed “this is how I’m going to die” while defending the Capitol on January 6 against a rampaging mob branding him a traitor. Another recalled how he was beaten unconscious by rioters supportive of then-president Donald Trump and said he “went to hell and …

RAWALPINDI: Police on Tuesday arrested a man for his alleged involvement in the murder of a 14-month-old boy and his mother three days ago. They also said the suspect had confessed to the crime during preliminary interrogation. A source close to the investigation revealed that a dagger believed to be the murder weapon and some broken pieces of bangles and …

TOBA TEK SINGH: A married woman was killed by her alleged rapists on Tuesday in Rajana’s Katchi Basti. Reports said on June 16, nine people kidnapped a married woman and three of them allegedly gang-raped her. According to a first information report registered by Rajana police, five of them were arrested and the rest managed to get pre-arrest bail. On …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday restored the terrorism charges against policemen allegedly involved in killing of Osama Satti and referred the case to the Anti Terrorism Court (ATC). ATC Judge Shahrukh Arjumand in April this year accepted the applications of detained cops seeking deletion of clauses of Anti-Terrorism Act from the FIR registered against them in connection …

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday approved the National Cyber Security Policy 2021 that allows establishment of a national cyber security response framework as the government constituted the Cyber Gover­nance Policy Committee to implement the policy. As per the policy, a cyberattack on any institution of Pakistan will be considered an act of aggression against national sovereignty and all necessary …

A mother and her son were killed in Islamabad on Wednesday as several areas of the capital experienced urban flooding after a cloudburst caused heavy rainfall. Footage circulating on social media showed flood water sweeping away cars in the E-11 area of the capital. Deputy Commissioner Islamabad attributed the flash flood with a cloudburst and urged the public to “cooperate …