British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday visited the church where lawmaker David Amess was stabbed to death a day earlier in what police say they are treating as a terrorist attack. Amess, 69, from Johnson’s Conservative Party, was knifed repeatedly in the attack at about midday on Friday in Leigh-on-Sea, east of London, during a meeting with constituents. Johnson, interior minister …

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi set out his Taliban worries to world leaders this week, Indian forces staged raids and battled rebels in occupied Kashmir, who the premier fears could be emboldened by the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan. Shootings of civilians and police in occupied Kashmir and raids by the security forces on rebels’ hideouts have increased in the Muslim-majority …

A senior UN official said on Friday the Taliban told him they will announce “very soon” that all Afghan girls will be allowed to attend secondary schools. Unicef Deputy Executive Director Omar Abdi, who visited Kabul last week, told reporters at UN headquarters that five of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces — Balkh, Jawzjan and Samangan in the northwest, Kunduz in the northeast and Urozgan …

The militant Islamic State group on Saturday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a Shia mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar that killed at least 41 people and injured scores more. The Friday assault came just a week after another IS-claimed attack on Shia worshippers at a mosque in the northern city of Kunduz that killed more than 60 people. …

RAWALPINDI: The status of cases excluded from the ambit of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is now uncertain as an accountability court in Rawalpindi stopped the hearing of a reference on Friday and sent it back to the prosecution for filing it in another court, while a sessions court returned the reference to NAB under the recently promulgated National Accountability …

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly again faced the quorum syndrome on Friday as its session could not continue even for half an hour. During the brief sitting, the issue of non-provision of additional development funds to the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) came under spotlight. The latest increase in electricity tariff also came under discussion and the opposition lashed out …

The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) further eased coronavirus restrictions on Friday, allowing the reopening of cinemas and shrines for fully vaccinated citizens across the country. According to a statement issued by the forum — which is the nerve centre of Pakistan’s virus response — the decision to relax restrictions was taken during a meeting convened to review the …

ISLAMABAD: The Presidency on Friday declared the first ever green presidential secretariat of the world after it was awarded international certification of ISO 50001 EnMS. According to the presidency, President Dr Arif Alvi has successfully curtailed over 35 per cent of its energy use, which would save Rs72.5 million to national kitty. After assuming the office in 2018, the president …

ISLAMABAD: Commerce Adviser Abdul Razak Dawood said on Friday the government was fully focused on boosting trade and exports with Afghanistan. He said peace in Afghanistan and strengthening of economic relationship between the two countries would help increase bilateral trade. Talking to media on the occasion of first cargo handling from Islamabad airport to Afghanistan via road, the minister said …

ISLAMABAD: The trial court has charged 12 accused persons in the Noor Mukadam murder case with 15 grave crimes. The accused, including the principal accused Zahir Jaffer, pleaded not guilty and intended to face the trial. Additional District and Sessions Judge Atta Rabbani on Thursday indicted the accused including Zahir Jaffer and his parents Zakir Jaffer and Asmat Adamjee. The …