Russian President Vladimir Putin has said ‘nothing can prevent the development of our friendly relations with Riyadh”. He made the remarks in a rare and hastily arranged meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday. Putin’s meeting with the Saudi crown prince, known as MBS, came after oil prices fell despite a pledge by OPEC+ (The Organization of More
At least six people, including four children, were injured in an explosion in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday. Bilal Ahmad Faiz, spokesman for emergency rescue services, said an improvised explosive device (IED) went off on a busy road in the city at 9:10am. A senior police official said the explosives weighing four kilograms More
At least nine people, including two army soldiers, have been killed and 26 others injured in a gun attack on a passenger vehicle in the Pakistan-controlled zone of Kashmir, media reports said on Sunday. The mini-van was travelling from Gilgit Baltistan to Rawalpindi when terrorists opened indiscriminate fire on it in Chilas area on Saturday More
Former US secretary of state and national security advisor Henry Kissinger has died at 100, CNN reported on Thursday. The iconic US foreign policy figure passed away on Wednesday at his home in Connecticut, Kissinger Associates said, without giving the cause of his death. A Harvard University faculty member, Kissinger and Vietnamese politician Le Duc More
At least one soldier has been confirmed dead and seven others missing as a US military CV-22 Osprey crashed in Japan. The Special Operations Command of the US Air Force said the plane crashed out of the Yokata Airport in Japan on Wednesday. Seven on board are still missing while one of them was found More
Qatar says the provisional ceasefire between Middle Eastern foes Israel and Hamas in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza will be extended by a day. In Doha, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement: “Palestinian and Israeli sides reached an agreement to extend the humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip for an additional day More
The World Health Organisation (WHO) head has underlined the need for a sustained truce in Gaza, as the pause in fighting is set to end. In a post on X, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said a continued ceasefire was a matter of life and death for civilians in the embattled Palestinian enclave. The WHO director-general added: More
The people of Waziristan, just like Chaman residents, have rejected the condition of visa and passport for entry into Afghanistan, Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) chairman said on Tuesday. PTM chairman Manzoor Ahmad Pashteen made these remarks at a gathering attended by tens of thousands of protesting people in the Chaman town of Pakistan’s Balochistan province. More
Qatar has announced a two-day extension in the pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, says a media report. Each day since the four-day truce began on Friday, Hamas has released some of hostages while Israel also freed some Palestinians, Reuters reported. “The State of Qatar announces that, as part of the ongoing More
Foreign ministers from five Islamic countries, including Saudi Arabia and Egypt, have called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. Ministers from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Indonesia, the Palestinian Authority and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, among others, visited Beijing and met the top Chinese diplomat there. Urging an end to the hostilities in Gaza, the More
