The doctor leading the medical board examining former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif has himself suffered a heart stroke. Dr Ijaz Qadeer, who is the head of the medical board, has reportedly been shifted to the same centre of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad where Sharif und

Imran Khan will be sworn in as Pakistan’s new Prime Minister before the country’s independence day on August 14, his party has announced, even as it is trying to reach out to smaller parties and independents to form the next government. Though the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has emerged as the

Jakarta, Indonesia: A powerful earthquake on the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok killed at least 13 people, injured hundreds and damaged thousands of homes on Sunday, officials said. The shallow 6.4-magnitude quake jolted the island in the early morning, sending people running outside in pani

Islamabad: Mahesh Kumar Malani of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has become the first Hindu candidate to win a National Assembly seat, 16 years after non-Muslims got the right to vote and contest on general seats in the country. Mahesh Kumar Malani contested and won the National Assembly (NA-22

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday left for home after concluding his three-nation Africa tour during which he attended the BRICS Summit in South Africa and he held bilateral meetings with several world leaders including presidents of China and Russia. “Gratitude to President @CyrilRamaphosa

Ankara: A powerful commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday that Donald Trump should address any threats against Tehran directly to him, and mocked the US president as using the language of "night clubs and gambling halls". The comments by Major-General Qassem Soleimani, wh

North Korea on Friday returned the remains of what are believed to be U.S. servicemen killed during the Korean War, the White House said, with a U.S military plane making a rare trip into North Korea to retrieve 55 cases of remains. The handover follows through on a promise North Korean leader Ki

Beirut, Lebanon: A string of suicide blasts and raids claimed by the ISIS killed more than 220 people in southern Syria on Wednesday, in one of the terrorist group's deadliest ever assaults in the country. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attacks hit several areas of the largely g

Washington: China has quietly resumed its activities in the Doklam area and neither Bhutan nor India has sought to dissuade it, a top US official has said while comparing Beijing's actions in the Himalayan region with its manoeuvres in the disputed South China Sea. China claims sovereignty over a

Karachi/Peshawar: At least 34 people were killed, including 31 in a deadly suicide blast outside a polling station in Pakistan's Quetta city and 36 others injured as several incidents of violence were reported as the country went to polls. In Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, a suicide bla

India is all set to get a waiver from the punitive US law called Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) , which will allow New Delhi to ink the Rs 39,000 crore deal for five advanced S-400 Triumf air defence missile systems from Russia later this year without facing the thre

A medical board which examined Nawaz Sharif today recommended the immediate shifting of the jailed former Pakistan prime minister to a hospital but the PML-N supremo insisted that the required medical facilities should be provided to him in the jail itself, according to a media report. Sharif, 68

NOIDA: Two terrorists allegedly from Bangladesh were on Tuesday arrested from Noida in Uttar Pradesh. The two have been identified as Musharraf Hussain and Rubel Ahmed. The two terrorists hiding in Noida were arrested by a joint team of Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad and West Bengal Police. P

US President Donald Trump on Monday retaliated to Iranian supremo Hassan Rouhani’s “mother of all wars” threat, saying the middle-eastern nation will have to suffer dire consequences if it tried to cross the US. Trump was reacting — on Twitter, in capital letters — to Rouhani’s statement where he ha

Toronto: Fourteen people, including a young girl, were shot near downtown Toronto, police in Canada's biggest city said on Sunday, with one person killed and the gunman also dead. The young girl was in a critical condition, Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders said. "We are looking at all possib

RAWALPINDI (Pakistan): In a highly unusual development, anti-ISI slogans were raised by the supporters of Pakistan's mainstream political party, the PML (N) and others outside General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi. A large number of supporters of former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif gat

India will sign a defence framework agreement with Rwanda next week when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Kigali along with his tour of Uganda and South Africa from July 23 to 27, the External Affairs Ministry announced on Friday. In South Africa, he will attend the BRICS summit. The defence a

New York: Over 20 Indian-origin people have been sentenced for up to 20 years in prison in the United States for their involvement in a multi-million dollar India-based call centre scam which defrauded thousands of US citizens of hundreds of millions of dollars. The prison sentences for the 21 pe