Kathmandu: Chinese Defense Minister and State Councilor Wei Fenghe is scheduled to visit Nepal on November 29. Wei will arrive in the Himalayan nation two days after Indian Foreign Secretary Harsha Vardan Shringla concludes his Nepal visit on November 27. Although China and Nepal are yet to announce the visit, according to the multiple media reports in...
Kabul: Terming Pakistan a "producer, sponsor and exporter of terrorism", scores of people took to the streets of Kabul recently to protest against Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's maiden visit to Afghanistan. The demonstrators were seen carrying banners and pamphlets denouncing Pakistan's "hypocritic policy". They raised slogans against Pakistan and Khan. Imran Khan arrived in Kabul on...
A Pakistani minister withdrew her comments she made earlier that French President Emmanuel Macron was treating Muslims like Nazis had treated Jews in World War Two. France’s foreign minister had demanded Pakistan authorities withdraw the comments posted on Twitter by Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari. “Macron is doing to Muslims what the Nazis...
New Delhi: France has decided against helping Pakistan upgrade its fleet of Mirage fighter jets, air defense system and Agosta 90B class submarines, a direct fallout of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s loud criticism of French President Emmanuel Macron’s defense of the right to mock religion following the murder of a French schoolteacher, people familiar with...
An Indian-origin student is among a group from the University of Oxford Student Union that is leading a drive towards a meat-free campus as part of wider initiatives to cut the university's greenhouse emissions. Vihan Jain from the university's Worcester College joined two fellow students to draft a motion mandating the Student Union to lobby...
Yangon: Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party, headed by incumbent State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, pledged to fulfil the needs and aspirations of people after winning a landslide majority in the November 8 general elections. In its first message to the public after the official announcement of the poll results, NLD party said...
Washington: US President Donald Trump will issue a formal order to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan and Iraq as soon as this week, according to media reports. US media quoted officials as saying that the Pentagon had issued a notice to commanders to begin planning to decrease the number of troops to 2,500 level in both...
United Nations: India's Permanent Representative T.S. Tirumurti has called out Pakistan's "Pavlovian" response at the world body whenever India is mentioned, making it bring up its perceived grievances whatever matter is under discussion. "I do not wish to waste the time of this Assembly by responding to the irrelevant and irresponsible remarks made by the representative...
Islamabad: The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), an alliance comprising 11 of the country's opposition parties, has decided to go ahead with its November 22 rally in Peshawar despite Covid-19 restrictions. “The PDM’s November 22 rally in Peshawar will be held as per schedule,” the media coordinator for the Opposition parties’ coalition Abdul Jalil Jan said, reported...
