SANAA- Reuters /UNS:Saudi and Omani delegations arrived in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, Houthi-run media said on Sunday, to negotiate a permanent ceasefire deal with Houthi officials and end Riyadh’s military involvement in the country’s long-running war. The visit indicates progress in the Oman-mediated consultations between Riyadh and Sanaa, which run in […]
Month: April 2023
BEIJING -UNS: China’s foreign exchange reserves came in at $3.1839 trillion at the end of March, up 1.62 percent or $50.7 billion from a month earlier, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said. Affected by monetary policy and expectations for major economies, the dollar index fell and the prices of […]
BEIJING – UNS/Reuters: Seventy-one Chinese military aircraft crossed the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait on Saturday as China began drills around Taiwan in anger at President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with the speaker of the US House of Representatives. The three-day drills, announced the day after Tsai returned from […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS: Supreme Court (SC) judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa on Saturday objected to the verdict issued against him by a six-member SC bench remarking that it held no constitutional significance. Justice Isa issued a detailed note, later taken down from the SC’s website, on the Hafiz-e-Quran extra marks case […]
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has returned the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Bill, 2023, for reconsideration to parliament, stating that the legislation “prima-facie travels beyond the competence of the Parliament and can be assailed as a colourable legislation”. The president has returned the bill unsigned as per […]
KHYBER /BARA -UNS: Two soldiers embraced martyrdom on Saturday after an improvised explosive device (IED) blast exploded near their vehicle. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the explosion took place in the general area of Bara where the martyred, Naib Subedar Hazrat Gul, 37, ( resident of Lower Dir) […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS: In a bid to eliminate the menace of terrorism, the National Security Committee (NSC) gave its approval on Friday to the beginning of a full-scale operation with the backing of the nation and the government. This was approved at the NSC’s 41st meeting, which was held in Islamabad […]
JERUSALEM -Reuters :Israel’s military hit sites in Lebanon and Gaza early on Friday, in retaliation for rocket attacks it blamed on Hamas, as tensions following police raids this week on the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem threatened to spiral out of control. Israeli authorities said two people were killed during a […]
BY JAMES M. DORSEY America is in decline. Eclipsed by China’s rise, it is shifting attention from the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific. That is one refrain in the analysis of three seemingly paradigm-challenging developments in the past month: a Chinese-mediated restoration of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, […]
ISLAMAMABAD -UNS: Supreme Court judge Justice Athar Minallah on Friday remarked in his dissenting note that the apex court’s suo motu notice on Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) elections stood rejected by 4-3. He remarked that there were three basic reasons to reject the notice. “The bench which heard the […]
