Iran’s president on Saturday accused Israel of killing a prominent Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme, state TV reported. Iran’s clerical and military rulers have threatened revenge for Friday’s killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh; who Iranian media said died in hospital after assassins gunned him down in his […]
Donald Trump has said he will leave the White House if Joe Biden is formally confirmed as the next US president. Answering reporters’ questions for the first time since losing the 3 November vote, Mr. Trump insisted, however, that “this race is far from over”. He has refused to concede, citing unsubstantiated claims of voter […]
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Thursday that he is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19. The news comes just a day before the engagement of Bilawal’s sister, Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari, to a Dubai-based businessman and several days before the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) next rally in Multan scheduled for November 30. I have tested positive […]
Pakistan has handed over a dossier on India’s terror campaign to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, urging him to prevail on New Delhi to desist from its illegal and aggressive activities. The secretary-general promised to “study the dossier and take appropriate action”, said Pakistan’s envoy to the UN Munir Akram, who presented the dossier to […]
The Foreign Office (FO) said the Indian government had escalated its anti-Pakistan campaign — marked by false narratives, concocted evidence, and orchestration of false flag operations — after Islamabad made public a dossier containing “irrefutable proof” of Indian sponsorship of terrorism in the country. The statement was issued in response to media queries regarding the […]
United States President-elect Joe Biden has been formally given the go-ahead by a federal agency to begin his transition to the presidency, shortly after the battleground state of Michigan certified him as the winner there. With the rapid-fire developments on Monday, President Donald Trump’s already languishing efforts to overturn his November 3 defeat appeared to […]
A meeting of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) is informed today that new cases due to Covid-19 in Pakistan have doubled in the last two weeks while the positivity ratio had increased to 7.46 percent in the last 24 hours. According to the government’s database for tracking the spread of coronavirus in the […]
Donald Trump has been dealt a new setback in his effort to overturn the United States’s November 3 election results as a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by his campaign that sought to throw out millions of mail-in votes in the state of Pennsylvania. US District Court Judge Matthew Brann ruled on Saturday that […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday warned that the government may be compelled to enforce a “complete lockdown” across Pakistan is coronavirus cases continue to rise at the same rate, blaming Opposition for holding jalsas and endangering people’s lives as a result. Pakistan’s second COVID 19 spike data is of concern: Increase in Covid […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan and his cabinet members on Saturday lambasted the opposition alliance, Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), for moving ahead with tomorrow’s rally in Peshawar despite the threat of Covid-19. “The same PDM members who had wanted a strict lockdown and criticized me earlier [are] now playing reckless politics with people’s safety,” said the […]
