RIYADH: Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived here on Sunday on the second leg of his three-day official visit to Saudi Arabia. He was received at Royal Terminal of King Fahad International Airport by Deputy Governor of Riyadh Prince Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Abdulaziz. The prime minister is visiting Saudi Arabia from October 23-25 to attend the launch of the Middle …

JERUSALEM: Israel on Sunday announced plans to build more residences for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, drawing immediate condemnation from Palestinians, peace activists and neighbouring Jordan. The announcement from the housing and construction ministry in right-wing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s government said tenders had been published for 1,355 homes in the West Bank, which has been occupied by …

RIYADH: The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Sunday its air strikes had killed more than 260 Houthi rebels in the past three days, but a rebel spokesman said the bombing campaign will not stop them. The deaths are the latest among roughly 1,600 rebels the coalition claims it has killed in strikes over the past two weeks around Marib, the …

NEW DELHI: Facebook in India has been selective in curbing hate speech, misinformation and inflammatory posts, particularly anti-Muslim content, according to leaked documents, even as the internet giant’s own employees cast doubt over its motivations and interests. Based on research produced as recently as March of this year on company memos that date back to 2019, internal company documents on …

TEHRAN: Arab nations that normalised ties with Israel last year have “sinned” and should reverse such moves, Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei said on Sunday. The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco all agreed to normalise ties with Israel in 2020, as Washington under the administration of the then US President Donald Trump made Arab-Israeli rapprochement a foreign policy priority. “Some …

SRINAGAR: Indian forces shot dead a civilian in occupied Kashmir on Sunday, residents said, as authorities tightened security across the disputed territory for a visit by an Indian minister. The victim, a milk seller in the southern Kashmir Valley, is the 12th civilian killed by security forces or local fighters this month as attacks increase in the Himalayan region. India …

RAWALPINDI: Heavy rain lashed the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Sunday, turning the weather chilly but at the same time creating a mess on roads and streets. According to the meteorological department, temperature in both cities fell to 14°C, while 7mm of rain was recorded at Zero Point and Saidpur, 3mm at Bokra in Islamabad, 4mm at Chaklala …

Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed vowed on Monday to fulfil the commitments the government made with the banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) during negotiations a day earlier, saying the matter would be discussed during a federal cabinet meeting on Wednesday following Prime Minister Imran Khan’s return from Saudi Arabia. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, he said he had found the TLP’s incarcerated …

Indian celebrities from the world of Bollywood and cricket are increasingly launching digital memorabilia through non-fungible tokens (NFT), hoping to rake in thousands of dollars by cashing in on growing interest in such assets. NFTs are a type of digital asset which use blockchain to record the ownership of items such as images, videos and other collectibles. Their roaring popularity …

QUETTA: The two-month-long political crisis being faced by Balochistan came to end on Sunday evening when Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan Alyani of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) tendered his resignation. Governor Syed Zahoor Ahemd Agha accepted the resignation soon after Mr Alyani sent it to him. Consequently, the provincial cabinet stands dissolved. The former CM in his written resignation …