Germany, Poland and Sweden have expelled an employee of Russia’s embassy in each country, in a coordinated tit-for-tat response to Moscow’s expulsion last week of a German, a Polish, and a Swedish diplomat. The German foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday that Russia’s decision to expel diplomats from European Union countries; including one […]
NEW DELHI: India has asked popular micro-blogging website Twitter Inc to remove 1,178 accounts; which the country says are allegedly backed by Pakistan by sympathizers of a separatist Sikh movement; two technology ministry sources said on Monday. India’s security agencies said some of the accounts, operated from outside of the country. The order also involved […]
ISLAMABAD: Lawyers protesting in Islamabad on Monday violently agianst the demolition of their chambers by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) at the Islamabad judicial complex. A mob of lawyers smashed windows in the Chief Justice block; chanting slogans outside the IHC Chief Justice’s office. The CDA had on Sunday night demolished illegal chambers set up […]
Cairo: Egyptian authorities on Saturday released a journalist working for Qatar’s Al Jazeera television network who was held in pre-trial detention for more than four years, his brother and a lawyer told a local news channel. Mahmoud Hussein, an Egyptian detained in December 2016 after arriving in Cairo from Doha on vacation, was held on […]
India said on Friday it was restoring 4G mobile internet in occupied Kashmir for the first time since August 2019, when the government withdrew the special rights of the restive Muslim-majority region. India Occupied Jammu and Kashmir was India’s only Muslim-majority state before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government split it into two, including […]
The new military rulers of Myanmar on Friday ordered mobile operators and internet service providers to block access to Twitter and Instagram in the country until further notice, Norwegian telecom Telenor said. The government had already ordered internet providers on Thursday to block Facebook; which counts half of the population of 54 million as users, […]
The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) has decided to march on Islamabad beginning March 26. The announcement came after a meeting of the Pakistan Democratic Movement in Islamabad. Caravans from across the country will leave for Islamabad on March 26, Fazl told reporters. He also announced that the 11-party alliance will not compete against each other […]
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi strongly criticized the opposition; in Thursday’s sitting of the National Assembly for not allowing debate on the 26th constitutional amendment bill; seeking open balloting in the Senate elections to progress forward. Recently, The government had presented the bill in the lower house yesterday amidst a ruckus created by the opposition […]
Iran is ready for a new nuclear agreement with the US — but the clock is ticking, according to Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday, Zarif said the Biden administration has a “limited window of opportunity” to re-enter the 2015 nuclear agreement. “The time for the […]
Twitter has restored dozens of Indian accounts that were earlier blocked in response to legal notice by the government, citing objections based on public order. The accounts were all linked to continuing farmers’ protests against a series of agricultural reform laws. They included farmers’ leaders, activists, and a news magazine. The protests are now in […]
