The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) announced on Friday that Pakistan will continue to remain on the watchdog’s “increased monitoring list”, also known as the grey list, till it addresses the single remaining item on the original action plan agreed to in June 2018 as well as all items on a parallel action plan handed […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Russian soldiers who fought in World War II and criticized NATO’s expansion in an op-ed published Tuesday by a German weekly. “We hoped that the end of the Cold War would be a common victory for Europe,” Putin wrote in Die Zeit. “But a different approach has prevailed based on […]
A US military delegation will visit Ankara later this week to hold detailed consultations on a possible Turkish role to guard Kabul International Airport after the Nato withdrawal, a senior Turkish defence official said on Monday. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart Joe Biden agreed last week that Turkey would take a […]
Ebrahim Raisi, the hardline head of Iran’s judiciary, has been hailed the country’s new president after his three main rivals congratulated him on his victory and preliminary results showed he had secured 17.8m votes, a huge 14.5m more than his nearest rival. With 90% of the votes counted, Iranian officials said 28.6 million people had […]
Belgium’s failure to meet climate targets is a violation of human rights, a Brussels court has ruled, in the latest legal victory against public authorities that have broken promises to tackle the climate emergency. The Brussels court of first instance declared the Belgian state had committed an offence under Belgian’s civil law and breached the […]
The Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday took a jibe at the PTI government and said that the recent budget is “fake” as it has further pushed people into poverty. Shahbaz, referring to the 21 government bills that were passed on June 10, said the lawmaking done a few […]
Turkey will not take new steps to resolve disputes around US-made F-35 jets and Russian-made S-400 missile systems with the United States, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told his US counterpart Joe Biden on Thursday. The US sanctioned Turkish government officials last year over Ankara’s acquisition of S-400s from Russia. Washington also officially kicked Turkey out […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised Joe Biden and said Moscow is ready for further talks with Washington in comments made a day after meeting his US counterpart in Geneva. “We are ready to continue this dialogue to the same extent as the American side is,” Putin said after he returned home from Wednesday’s meeting, […]
The Opposition has decided to jointly move a no-confidence motion against National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser, sources said Wednesday, after two days of ruckus in the Lower House. The development came during a meeting of Opposition party leaders in Islamabad, where they decided to form a committee that would draft a plan of action to […]
United States President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have agreed to hold talks on arms control and cybersecurity and to return their respective ambassadors to their posts, after a summit in Geneva that Putin described as “constructive”. The talks on Wednesday were the first meeting between the pair since Biden took office […]
