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UNITED NATIONS: The banned militant group Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) still has about 6,000 trained fighters on the Afghan side of the border, warns a report prepared for the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The 28th report of the UN Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team also confirms the presence of hundreds of anti-Beijing Muslim militants close to Afghanistan’s border with China. The …

LONDON: London’s Metropolitan Police engaged in “a form of institutional corruption” by denying and even concealing failings in its handling of the unsolved murder of a private investigator, an independent panel said on Tuesday. The first objective of Britain’s biggest police force was to “protect itself” in its refusal to acknowledge the many failures in the probe into Daniel Morgan’s …

ISLAMABAD: Internet freedom in Pakistan declined dramatically in 2020 due to increased blocking of political, social and cultural websites by the government, beefed-up operationalisation of an undeclared policy of connectivity restrictions and increased disinformation and weaponisation of the cybercrime law as a tool. This is the crux of the findings of the “Annual Pakistan media legal review 2020” report launched …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s liquefied natural gas terminals are overstressed and LNG value chain is very fragile from all parameters against global standards and could face operational and safety risks, contrary to common perception in public discourse that terminals are underutilised. “Even with the low ratios of ‘re-gas to storage’ and ‘LNG import capacity to storage’, the overall utilisation rate of LNG …

HOUSTON, Texas — Residents of Houston are nursing New Year’s hangovers of another kind – credit card debt. According to a LendingTree study of the 50 largest U.S. metro areas, Houston consumers rank fourth for the highest median amount of credit card debt to ring in the new year: $3,720. In second place is Austin ($3,911), with Dallas at No. …

ISLAMABAD: With the emergence of the second wave of Covid-19, the country may face serious health governance challenges both at the policy and implementation level that if not addressed might jeopardise and reverse the gains made in the first phase of the fight against the pandemic. The first monthly Covid-19 response monitoring report, released by the Trust for Democratic Education …

WASHINGTON: The United States in its Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report for the year 2020 has downgraded Pakistan from Tier 2 to Tier 2 watchlist, although acknowledging it “is making significant efforts” in combating human trafficking. The TIP report is divided into Tier-1, Tier-2, Tier-2 watchlist and Tier-3. Tier-2 watchlist countries are those whose governments do not fully meet the Trafficking Victims …

ISLAMABAD: Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows are forecast to decrease by up to 40 per cent in 2020 from 2019’s value of $1.54 trillion, according to UNCTAD’s ‘World Investment Report 2020’. This would bring FDI below $1tr for the first time since 2005. In addition, FDI is projected to decrease by a further 5pc to 10pc in 2021 and …

LONDON: The transfer value of players in 10 of Europe’s top leagues could plummet by up to 10 billion euros due to the economic crash caused by coronavirus, a study from accounting firm KPMG said on Wednesday. Transfer spending is expected to fall dramatically, with clubs across the continent facing huge losses as a result of football’s shutdown. The top …

LAUSANNE: FIFA president Gianni Infantino is suspected of having intervened with Switzerland’s attorney general to try to get an investigation dropped, a Swiss newspaper alleged on Monday. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) launched an investigation in early 2016, shortly after Infantino was elected president of world football’s governing body, about his awarding of a television rights contract to …