ISLAMABAD: The government is hopeful Nawaz Sharif will be back in Pakistan soon to answer for the corruption charges against him. Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior and Accountability Shahzad Akbar said on Wednesday that the government was working with the British authorities to finalize modalities for Nawaz’s return, while Minister for Science and […]
The United States’ top intelligence official has accused Russia and Iran of obtaining US voter information and making moves to influence public opinion ahead of the 2020 presidential election. John Ratcliffe, director of National Intelligence, made the announcement at a hastily arranged news conference on Wednesday; that also included FBI Director Chris Wray. The announcement […]
The survivor of the Lahore motorway gang-rape identified the prime accused, Abid Malhi, as one of the perpetrators of the crime. The Punjab Police arrested Malhi on October 12, over a month after the horrific gang rape of the woman. He had earlier managed to escape from the clutches of law enforcers in three previous […]
BHOPAL: A 20-year-old woman has alleged that she was kept in a lock-up and raped for 10 days in May this year by five police personnel, including the police station in-charge and sub-divisional police officer, in Mangawan of MP’s Rewa district. The woman is an accused in a murder case and is now in jail […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has called the beheading of a teacher in a north-western suburb of Paris an “Islamist terrorist attack”. The victim is said to have shown controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) to his pupils. The attacker was shot dead by police. Mr Macron said the as yet unnamed teacher was murdered […]
A 44-year-old single mother of three daughters, bought a shotgun in May for protection in the quaint middle-class town of Fishkill, New York. She joined a new and fast-growing local firearms club to learn how to shoot. Andreyah Garland, member of local Gun Club, opens a case with her Mossberg 590M 12 gauge shotgun as […]
Many Students and activists take part in a torch procession demanding women’s safety and justice for rape victims in Dhaka. A Bangladesh court has sentenced five men to death for the 2012 gang rape of a 15-year-old girl, amid growing public anger over rampant sexual violence. Court order comes days after government introduced death penalty […]
In the first interview by a senior Pakistani official to an Indian news outlet since India’s unilateral and illegal actions on August 5 2019, Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on National Security Dr. Moeed Yusuf spoke with India’s renowned journalist Karan Thapar, saying that Pakistan stands firmly for peace in the region through dialogue […]
A Lahore anti-terrorism court sent the prime suspect in the motorway gang-rape case, Abid Malhi, to jail on a 14-day judicial remand. The accused was brought to court under tight security, with a black hood covering his face that was removed during the proceedings. During the hearing, Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta approved a request by […]
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft said that it had used a court order to take control of computers that were installing ransomware and other malicious software on local government networks. Because this is threatening to disrupt the November election.Microsoft said it seized a series of internet protocol addresses hosted by U.S. companies that had been directing activity […]
