India’s army chief has said China is sending troops to their disputed border in “considerable numbers”, prompting a matching deployment by New Delhi in a development he called a “concern”. Tensions have been high between the nuclear-armed neighbours following a deadly border battle in June last year in the strategically important Galwan river valley in India’s Ladakh region, near Tibet. The world’s …

Some 3,000 paedophiles have operated inside the French Catholic Church since 1950, the head of an independent commission investigating the scandal told AFP days ahead of the release of its report. The commission’s research uncovered between 2,900 and 3,200 paedophile priests or other members of the church, said Jean-Marc Sauve, adding that it was “a minimum estimate”. The commission’s report is due …

As the weeks pass in Afghanistan, the new Taliban administration has yet to announce when it will re-open secondary schools for girls, leaving them stuck at home while their brothers return to class. Two weeks since boys in classes above the sixth grade were told to go back to school, the government says it is working on making it possible for …

ISLAMABAD: With the legal deadline for taking oath to retain his seat in the upper house of parliament set to ex­p­ire in less than two weeks, former finance minister Ishaq Dar has written a letter to the Election Commission of Pa­k­­istan, pleading that the rule of taking oath within 40 days does not apply to him. According to sources, he …

ISLAMABAD: The Quaid-i-Azam University (QUA) Academic Staff Association has urged the capital administration to conduct a clean-up operation in the university’s hostels and in surrounding areas. The association in a statement on Saturday called for expelling all illegal residents from the QAU hostels and securing the campus so that the university could resume its normal functioning. It also asked the …

RAWALPINDI: As many as 111 more dengue patients landed in the hospitals of Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Saturday. In the garrison city, 57 dengue patients arrived in three government-run hospitals taking their tally to more than 501 in just two weeks. The official data has not carried the patients admitted to private hospitals. In previous years, the provincial government collected …

GWADAR: Cyclone Shah­een, which originated in the Arabian Sea, caused heavy rain and thunderstorm in the coastal areas of Gwadar, Pasni, Ormara, and Jiwani on Saturday, damaging a large number of fishing boats, houses and shops. Over three dozen fishing boats anchored on the coasts of Gwadar and Pasni were destroyed as giant waves hit the coastal areas. At least …

WASHINGTON: The US Senate bill that seeks to assess Pakistan’s role in the Afghan war and suggests sanctions, also includes a provision that allows President Joseph Biden to waive the restrictions. Under this provision, the US president “may waive the application of sanctions under this title with respect to a foreign person if the president, not later 10 days before the waiver …

Expo 2020 Dubai, a major world fair that opened last week, on Sunday said three workers on the project had died after contracting Covid-19, revising up the number of fatalities since 2015 to six workers. The organiser had for the first time on Saturday disclosed three work-related deaths and 72 serious injuries among 200,000 workers during construction of the site, defending the accident rate …

ISLAMABAD: Senior members of the federal cabinet are ex­p­ected to hammer out a set of proposals on Tuesday to shape them into a final draft bill for amending the National Acco­un­tability Ordinance (NAO) 1999, which include exploring avenues for removal of National Accoun­tability Bureau (NAB) chairman during his four-year non-extendable term. Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry told Dawn that Tue­sday’s meeting will be …