Staff Writer

The European Union joined several Muslim nations on Saturday in condemning the latest incident of desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden while the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) would be convening an emergency meeting on the…

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan told the UN General Assembly that the Security Council’s inability to secure the implementation of its resolutions on Palestine and Kashmir to enable their peoples to exercise their right to self-determination were…

ISLAMABAD: Consistent with the provisions of the 2008 Agreement on Consular Access, the government of Pakistan on Saturday handed over a list of 308 Indian prisoners in Pakistan (42 civilian prisoners and 266 fishermen) to the High…

At least 25 people died and eight others were injured after the bus they were travelling in caught fire after hitting a pole on the Samruddhi Mahamarg near Buldhana in Maharashtra early Saturday morning. The police said the bus was…

UNITED NATIONS: The top official for the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), Miguel Moratinos, has unequivocally condemned the “vile act” of burning pages of the holy Quran in front of a mosque in the center of Stockholm, Sweden, as…

NEW YORK: Maryam Khan, a Pakistan-born member of the House of Representatives of the US state of Connecticut, was attacked after attending Eidul Azha prayers with her family in the state’s capital city of Hartford, officials said. A…

A US State Department report on Friday criticised the handling of the 2021 evacuation from Afghanistan, saying decisions by President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump to withdraw troops had “serious consequences for the viability”…

Under experimental status, the first flying car has officially been cleared for take off. This week, Alef Aeronautics revealed its flying car “Model A" was granted legal permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to test run the…

UNITED NATIONS: Following days of riots and protests across France over the police shooting of a teenager of Algerian and Moroccan descent, the UN rights office (OHCHR) said in Geneva that it was time for the country to reckon with its…

NEW YORK: The United States rejoined Unesco on Friday, reversing its withdrawal during the Trump administration, the UN’s cultural agency said. Former US president Donald Trump announced in 2017 that he was pulling the United States out of…