MULTAN, PAKISTAN: Pakistani police arrested a high-profile mullah on Wednesday over his alleged role in the murder of a social media star Qandeel Baloch last year, which reignited calls for action against so-called "honour killings". The model, who shot to fame for her provocative selfies -- tame

President Donald Trump lit a diya to celebrate Diwali in the Oval Office with a group of Indian-Americans from his administration, including ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, and members of the community, as he made a nod to a  “very strong relationship” with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Trump’s

Washington: US President Donald Trump has asked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run against him in the 2020 presidential elections. Trump registered a shocking win over Clinton who was the Democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential elections. Clinton in recent months have been

United Nations: Calling the Myanmar Rohingya refugee crisis “the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis and a major humanitarian emergency”, the heads of three UN aid organisations have said they were seeking 434 million USD for the victims. The officials — UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filip

Mogadishu: The death toll in the massive twin truck bombings in Somalia’s capital has mounted to 300, officials said. The officials explosion has been called as the one of the deadliest attacks to hit the capital, Mogadishu, since an Islamist insurgency began in 2007, reported the New York Times.

Baghdad, Iraq: Iraqi forces are advancing in a “major operation” to enter disputed Kirkuk city and take control of a Kurdish military base and oil fields, Kurdish authorities said early Monday. Iraqi forces and allied paramilitaries are “now advancing from Taza in South of Kirkuk in a major op wi

Virginia State University in on lockdown after a shooting on campus. University police tweeted on Saturday night, "Shooting on Campus - VSU is on lockdown. Avoid the area. Updates to follow." A second tweet said police were still on the scene, the campus remains on lockdown and to continue to

London [UK]: The 2017 Nobel Prize winner foundation, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) said by holding certification of the Iran nuclear deal United States President Donald Trump is ‘igniting new conflict rather than reducing the risk of nuclear war’. The Independent re

Islamabad [Pakistan]: The government of Pakistan’s Punjab Province has withdrawn a request to extend the house arrest of banned Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed and four of his associates under the Anti-Terrorism Act. However, all the five will continue to be kept under house arrest but und

Geneva: Aung San Suu Kyi has set out plans for a new humanitarian project to enable Myanmar‘s Rakhine State to emerge as a peaceful and developed region, which a close adviser said showed her determination to fix the country’s refugee crisis. Suu Kyi said in a televised address on Thursday evenin

Russia on Saturday launched an unmanned Progress space freighter carrying supplies to the International Space Station from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz 2.1a rocket carrying the ship successfully reached orbit eight minutes after taking off at 11:47am Moscow time (0846 GMT), a

Washington: US President Donald Trump has said he is open to the possibility of negotiations with North Korea over its nuclear weapons programme. “We’re going to see what happens with North Korea. That’s all I can say. We’re going to see what happens. We’re totally prepared for numerous things,”

Hyderabad: Accusing it of anti-Israeli bias, the United States followed by Israel announced to quit UNESCO, on Thursday, 12 October. The withdrawal of the United States is seen as a major blow for United Nation’s cultural agency, as United States provides a fifth of UNESCO’s funding. The Paris-ba

Sana’a: Yemeni police have arrested 10 members of the Islamist Al-Islah party, the group said Wednesday, following a roadside bombing that killed a cleric with ties to the United Arab Emirates. Imam Yassin al-Adani, a Yemeni cleric who serves as spiritual advisor to UAE troops allied with the gov

Kabul: At least 23 militants belonging to Afghanistan’s insurgent group Taliban were killed and 28 other injured during the operations in southern Zabul province of Afghanistan. Afghan Ministry of Defence (MoD), confirming the casualties, said in a statement that the operations were conducted in

6 October 2017 – United Nations agencies are seeking more funds to cope with the mass exodus of people fleeing violence in Myanmar into Bangladesh, which the top UN aid official described the world's fastest growing refugee crisis. UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock told reporters in Ge

WASHINGTON: Hilary Clinton admitted in public that the American Government and Intelligence Agencies created and funded Al-Qaeda in order to fight the Soviet Union. United States doesn’t actually fight terrorists but funds and trains them and equip them with arms and is actually responsible for d

Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh: At least 14 Rohingya refugees, most of them children, drowned and scores more were missing Monday after their overloaded boat capsized, the latest tragedy to strike those fleeing violence in Myanmar. Authorities in Bangladesh said the boat was carrying 60 to 100 peopl