PYONGYANG: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a deal with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un on Wednesday that includes a mutual defence pledge, one of Russia’s most significant moves in Asia for years that Kim said amounted to an “alliance”. Putin’s pledge overhauls Russia’s entire post-Soviet policy on North Korea just as the United States and its Asian allies try to …
NEW YORK: Pakistan has called on the United Nations for a “concerted campaign” to recover all weapons from terrorist groups, such as the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Speaking at the UN’s Fourth Review Conference of the Programme of Action (PoA) on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) on Tuesday, Ambassador Munir Akram expressed Pakistan’s “grave concern over the acquisition and use of modern …
A three-day horse racing event held from June 10 to June 12 in Shangri-La city, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, presented a spectacular display of traditional horse racing culture to local residents and tourists. The grand event opened with a dazzling array of equestrian performances. Riders clad in vibrant racing attire enthralled spectators with intricate performances, including …
By focusing on key desert fringe areas and taking innovative, scientific and comprehensive measures for wind prevention, sand and desertification control, as well as dust suppression, China has made a promising start to its campaign to tame desert areas and created a model of sand control and desertification prevention and control. Last year, China initiated a battle against sand in …
ISLAMABAD: Anti-Terrorism Special Court-1 Islamabad JudgeAbdul Hasnat Mohammad Zulqarnain on Saturday rejected the police request for 10 days of physical custody of PTI’s leader and activists, arrested on Friday and sent them to jail on judicial remand. The Kohsar police produced the accused in the court of Judge Abdul Hasnat Mohammad Zulqarnain with request that they snatched anti-riot shield kit …
NEW YORK: Pakistan won the toss and elected to bowl first in their final game of the T20 World Cup after the Green Shirts were knocked out in the group stages of the mega event. Pakistan, the 2009 champions and runners-up in 2007 and 2022, lost their first two Group A fixtures. A stunning super-over humiliation at the hands of the United States was …
MANSEHRA: The Jamiat Ulema-Islam-F on Saturday alleged that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was spreading false propaganda against its ideology and central leadership. “The electoral defeat of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and the victory of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf nominee Shahzada Gustasab Khan in the NA-15 constituency is the result of our political strategy,” JUI-F leader Mufti Kifayatullahtold reporters here. Accompanied by other …
LAHORE: A state prosecutor on Saturday said in an anti-terrorism court (ATC) that the attack on the Jinnah House, which also serves as the residence of Lahore’s corps commander, was carried out as part of an organised conspiracy. Special Prosecutor Rao Abdul Jabbar argued that the attack on the Jinnah House on May 9 was a serious crime. He concluded his arguments …
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was moved by a private citizen on Saturday against the dismissal of his petition seeking ex-premier Imran Khan’s disqualification for allegedly concealing his daughter Tyrian Khan White in the nomination papers for 2018 general elections. The petitioner, Mohammad Sajid, through his counsel Saad Mumtaz Hashmi, pleaded that the full bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that dismissed his petition …
KARACHI: Amid raging controversy in the country over the establishment’s alleged attempts to pressurise the judiciary, Sindh High Court (SHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi on Saturday said he was not pressured in any such way. Responding to a reporter’s question during an event in Karachi, CJ Abbasi said: “I have been a judge for 15 years and there …