China has threatened to impose sanctions on US firms involved with the sale of F-16 fighter planes to Taiwan, in retaliation against what it describes as Washington’s attempt to undermine Chinese national security.
An Iraqi legislator says evidence points to involvement of the Israeli regime in a recent attack on pro-government Popular Mobilization Units, better known by the Arabic word Hashd al-Sha’abi, stating that the Tel Aviv regime is trying to weaken the volunteer forces.
The top Iranian diplomat says "security is a common global commodity," that either exists for everybody or no one.
The New York City-based leading rights group said on Wednesday that Saudi-led warships and helicopters killed at least 47 Yemeni fishermen in bombing attacks on fishing boats last year. Seven children were among the dead.
The rial, the currency unit used consistently in Iran for almost a century, will be totally abandoned once the country introduces a redenomination.
Russia has reiterated its support for Venezuela and its resistance against "illegal" pressure amid attempts by Washington to topple the government of President Nicolas Maduro.
US President Donald Trump has said that Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib “wants to cut off aid to Israel,” a day after he called Jewish people who vote for Democrats “disloyal.”
A report in Bloomberg, a leading global economic and business website, says Iran is successfully weathering an economic crisis caused by massive US sanctions thanks to reforms in the currency market and other measures.
More than 2,000 people have been forced to flee from their homes, and 19 have been killed, since fighting broke out between government troops and ethnic insurgents in northern Myanmar last week, government officials said.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has expressed concern about tensions in Kashmir, urging India to follow a fair policy with respect to people of the Muslim-majority region.
China accuses Britain of "basking in the faded glory of British colonialism". Britain’s reaction, to the internal affairs of China, has damaged the relations between two countries.
Nigeria on Wednesday announced that three years had elapsed since it last recorded a case of polio, a key step towards eradicating the notorious disease in Africa.
Prime Minister Imran Khan said Wednesday the brutal Narendra Modi, his Indian counterpart, was preparing to inflict cruelty on all Kashmiris.
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa visited the Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) Wah and Heavy Industries Taxila (HIT) on Wednesday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.
EU antitrust regulators want to know whether Facebook's proposed Libra cryptocurrency and its use of consumer data pose possible anti-competitive constraints, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday lauded his government's efforts to improve Pakistan's economy, saying their economic policies were beginning to bear fruit.
US President Donald Trump Tuesday postponed a planned visit to Denmark after Danish officials insisted its autonomous territory of Greenland was not for sale.
A spokesperson form China's foreign minister said on Wednesday that Pakistan Army, under the leadership of General Qamar Javed Bajwa will continue to make contributions to upholding Pakistan’s sovereignty and security interests as well as the peace and stability in the region.
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday chaired a high-level meeting on the rise in polio cases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other parts of Pakistan.
As Karachi reels from the aftermath of the disastrous monsoon spell, the sprawling metropolis of nearly 20 million has once again been held hostage to blame games as politicians engage in a war of words.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday discussed the situation in Indian occupied Kashmir with his Netherlands counterpart Stef Blok during a phone conversation.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has reaffirmed support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for polio eradication efforts in Pakistan, in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari has written a letter to UNICEF to remove Indian actor Priyanka Chopra as its goodwill ambassador for peace.
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday began implementing a landmark reform allowing women over the age of 21 to receive passports and travel abroad without permission from a male "guardian", authorities said.
Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal on Wednesday said Pakistan is considering raising the issue in occupied Kashmir at the Human Rights Council.
While launching automated Sales Tax Registration system for broadening of the tax base, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has sent out 100,000 tax notices to high net worth individual non-filers who have undertaken trillion of rupees business transactions.
Prime Minister Imran Khan has given three-year extension in service to Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa, which will start on Nov 29, 20129 and end on Nov 30, 2022.
French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss tensions in occupied Kashmir with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi when the two meet in Paris this week, a French official said on Tuesday.
Pakistan’s current account deficit (CAD) contracted by a massive 73 per cent in the first month of this fiscal year, the State Bank said on Tuesday.
A separatist group in Yemen that is backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has attacked and overtaken two military camps belonging to militants supported by Saudi Arabia, even as their patron countries are ostensibly in one alliance.
A report has revealed that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) sealed a secretive deal with the Israeli regime a few years ago to acquire advanced surveillance aircraft as Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi move closer to normalization of ties.
The United States is “the sower of chaos” and the rest of the world is beginning to unite “to limit the harm done without crashing the global economy,” American writer and political commentator Daniel Patrick Welch has said.
The 2019 World Robot Conference (WRC) started Tuesday in the Chinese capital, Beijing. Now in its fifth year, the event has become a diversified platform for technology exchange and industrial cooperation among robotics practitioners worldwide.
Italy's prime minister announced his resignation on Tuesday as he made a blistering attack on his own deputy and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, accusing him of sinking the ruling coalition and endangering the economy for personal and political gain.
The governor of the central Bank of Iran (CBI) says the country has spent some $62 billion on imports of basic goods and medicine since March, when the Iranian calendar year started.
China and Russia have warned that a new US missile test has heightened military tensions and risks triggering an “arms race.”
The White House is considering cutting taxes and reversing tariffs to avoid a looming recession in the United States economy.
Labour Party parliamentarian Naz Shah has said that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is involved in crimes against humanity and does not deserve the highest civilian award that the United Arab Emirates government plans to give him.
An accountability court in Islamabad on Tuesday turned down a request for A-class facilities in jail by former president Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur, who have been arrested in the fake bank accounts case.
Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday confirmed the sentence of a serving major who was tried by Field General Court Martial, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a press release.
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan on Tuesday said India has unleashed genocide in occupied Kashmir and urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to fulfil its responsibility for the resolution of the issue in the valley in accordance with its pending resolutions.
Indian Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has criticised his government's move to abolish Article 370 and said it not only emphasised majority rule "as opposed to it sustaining the rights of all human beings".
In an alarming development, total net losses of Pakistan’s State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) have ballooned to Rs191.5 billion in the financial year 2016-17 against Rs44.7 billion in 2015-16.
Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Tuesday said Pakistan would continue to present the Kashmir case and injustices being committed by India on every forum.
American tech giants Amazon, Facebook and Google joined forces on Monday to decry the French digital tax as retroactive and discriminatory.
Huawei on Tuesday dismissed Washington's three-month delay to a ban on US firms selling to the Chinese tech giant and said the decision would not change the fact it had been "treated unjustly".
For more than a week, the young men of Soura, a densely populated enclave in occupied Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar, have been taking turns to maintain an around-the-clock vigil at the entry points to their neighbourhood.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Shaukat Yousafzai on Tuesday said those people becoming a hurdle in the anti-polio campaign will be treated as terrorists.
Curfew and lockdown situation continued in Indian occupied Kashmir for a 16th consecutive day on Tuesday, following the Indian government’s abolition of the special status of the occupied valley.
The Pakistani government has decided to approach the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over widespread human rights abuses by Indian forces in Occupied Kashmir.
Yemeni army troops, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees, have targeted a military parade and gatherings of Riyadh's mercenaries in Yemen’s central province of Ma'rib with a new domestically-manufactured missile.
Turkish Interior Ministry has removed three mayors from office on charges of links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group.
A series of explosions have hit the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar during the country's 100th anniversary of its independence, wounding dozens of people including women and children.
Eight Palestinian administrative detainees are currently on hunger strike refusing to eat or drink to protest their illegal detention without charge or trial at Israeli jails.
Eight Palestinian administrative detainees are currently on hunger strike refusing to eat or drink to protest their illegal detention without charge or trial at Israeli jails.
News that Turkey’s military pension fund has reached a deal to buy embattled British Steel will come as a disappointment to supporters of British industry.
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has said that he is putting together a coalition of former Donald Trump Cabinet officials to denounce the “unstable” US president ahead of the 2020 election.
President Michel Aoun says the Lebanese economy will pick up this year, although more gradually than previously thought, and people from all walks of the society will soon experience the recovery.
Sudan's Omar al-Bashir has admitted that he received $90 million in cash from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other royals, says a senior police official.
Iran's top military commander says the release of the Iranian-operated Adrian Darya 1 supertanker, which was seized by British marines in the Strait of Gibraltar last month, proves the Islamic Republic's power at the international level.
Iran’s leading carmaker Iran-Khodro Company (IKCO) has appointed a senior manager from the energy sector as its new CEO amid a public outcry over surging prices and low quality which prompted a government intervention.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Monday said Prime Minister Imran Khan had decided to appoint General Qamar Javed Bajwa as Chief of Army Staff for another three years keeping in mind the security environment in the entire region, including Afghanistan and Indian Occupied Kashmir.
The Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) on Monday quashed a reference against Supreme Court judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa, saying the allegations against him were not "serious or grave enough to constitute misconduct sufficient for his removal".
General Qamar Javed Bajwa has been appointed Pakistan Army chief for another three years.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has claimed a major breakthrough in the fake accounts case against former president Asif Ali Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur and others.
Prime Minister's Youth Affairs Programme (PMYAP) has launched the 'Kamyab Jawan Programme’ for the socioeconomic development of the youth in the progress of the country.
In its latest act of aggression against Pakistan, India has released up to 0.2 million cusecs of water into the River Sutlej without notifying the relevant authorities.
India’s Deputy High Commissioner Gaurav Ahluwalia was summoned to Pakistan's Foreign Office on Monday to lodge a protest against ceasefire violations.
Thousands of people detained without charge in the Indian occupied Kashmir (IoK) are being flown out, as jails in the occupied valley have run out of capacity.
An accountability court in Islamabad extended the judicial remand of former president Asif Ali Zardari and his sister, Faryal Talpur, till September 5 in the long-running money laundering and fake bank accounts case.
Opposition parties on Monday are holding an All Parties Conference (APC) to deliberate on the situation in Indian occupied Kashmir and the political situation in the country.
A new report suggests Russia has been considerably successful in its pledge to remove the US dollar from trade with others, adding that the greenback has been replaced by local currencies in nearly half of Moscow’s transactions with leading partners India and China.
Dozens of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to Yemen's former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, have been killed and scores of others sustained injuries when Yemeni army forces and their allies fired a domestically-manufactured ballistic missile at their camp in Saudi Arabia’s southern province of Najran.
US stocks plunged on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling more than 450 points, as investors were spooked by the latest signals from the bond market that pointed to heightened risk of a recession.
Three civilians have been killed and eight others wounded when two female bombers blew themselves up in a crowd of people in northeastern Nigeria.
The chief commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has warned that any act of aggression against the country’s territory will be met with a firm response, stressing that the security of borders is a redline for the country.
South Korea “has agreed to pay substantially more money” to the United States “to defend itself” from North Korea, US President Donald Trump has announced.
Saudi authorities have extended the prison sentence of a renowned dissident cleric by four more years, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against pro-democracy campaigners, Muslim preachers and intellectuals continues in the country.
At least five people have been killed in northeastern Syria in a car bomb attack claimed by the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.
The joint session of the Parliament unanimously passed the resolution on Wednesday to condemn India’s move to scrap special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says young Iranian elites should both help advance Iran’s scientific status and expand the borders of science and technology in general.
United States Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells denied on Wednesday press reports claiming that India had informed the United States before revoking the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir.
Pakistan announced Wednesday that it was expelling the Indian High Commissioner and suspending bilateral trade with its nuclear-armed neighbour, days after New Delhi stripped the disputed Kashmir region of its special autonomy.
Prime Minister Imran Khan chaired on Wednesday a meeting of the National Security Committee at the Prime Minister’s Office, where important decisions regarding India-Pakistan ties were discussed following the Indian move to abolish Kashmir’s special status.
