External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday met his Afghan counterpart Mohammad Haneef Atmar

counterpart Haneef Atmar on the sidelines of the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in Dushanbe

LARKANA: Larkana police on Monday claimed to have arrested six suspects in Nasirabad and seized from them two hand-grenades and four pistols.... The police were tracing record of the suspects for further investigation. FIR was lodged by NTDC on April 15National Transmission and Dispatch Company( NTDC) sub-divisional officer Asad Murtaza Awan had lodged an FIR( No.... He had stated that he was informed by operator of the company’s control room at the area’s grid station about suspension of powe

Join our Whatsapp channel ISLAMABAD: The district administration in Dera Ghazi Khan last week forced an early end to a meeting of journalists discussing threats to their lives and the state of media freedom in Punjab’s Seraiki belt, according to a press release of the Freedom Network.A local official said the district administration did not allow the event to go ahead because the organisers had not obtained permission, a requirement under the law. The press release said Iqbal Khattak, the repres

Join our Whatsapp channel KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has directed a senior police officer to “ produce ” eight missing students, all hailing from Balochistan, in court by Nov 4 and warned to pass an “ appropriate order ” in case of failure.A two-judge bench comprising Justice Salahuddin Panhwar and Justice Adnan-Ul-Karim Memon also issued notices to the home secretary, inspector general of police( IGP), advocate general and an additional prosecutor general for Nov 4. Petitioner Wazeer Ahmed m

Dominic Raab was reportedly advised by No 10 officials to return from his holiday on 13 August as the Afghanistan situation deteriorated — but stayed for a further two days after Boris Johnson’s approval. The claim comes amid calls for the foreign secretary to resign after failing to make a call to his Afghan counterpart over the evacuation of interpreters while he was overseas on the Greek island of Crete.A government official told The Sunday Times that Mr Raab was “ told to come back ” on Frid

Join our Whatsapp channel Pakistan has pledged to become fully Shariah-compliant in its banking services by December 2027 under a Federal Shariat Court order.... Given the challenges and the limited timeframe allowed by the court for conversion, the ambitious task appears to be quite daunting, even if not outrightly impossible to pull off.... The first Shehbaz Sharif government had agreed to implement Islamic finance under pressure from religious parties and groups, with its then-finance minis

Paula Bronstein/ Getty Images Murals are seen along the walls at the U.S. embassy on July 30, 2021, in Kabul, Afghanistan.... When will putting the remaining U.S. personnel at risk for a mission that has essentially ended not be worth it?... These are the questions they will be asking, probably every day," said Mulroy, now an ABC News contributor. While two U.S. officials said evacuation planning has been reviewed for some time, State Department spokesperson Ned Price declined to comment on an

Paula Bronstein/ Getty Images Murals are seen along the walls at the U.S. embassy on July 30, 2021, in Kabul, Afghanistan.... When will putting the remaining U.S. personnel at risk for a mission that has essentially ended not be worth it?... These are the questions they will be asking, probably every day," said Mulroy, now an ABC News contributor. While two U.S. officials said evacuation planning has been reviewed for some time, State Department spokesperson Ned Price declined to comment on an

DOHA, Qatar — Until it happened, few believed that it actually would.To get the Taliban and representatives of the Afghan government into one room for direct negotiations took months even after the insurgents agreed to it in February as part of an agreement with the United States.... The U.S. deal with the Taliban envisioned the exchange of 5, 000 Taliban prisoners for 1, 000 members of the Afghan forces in 10 days.... Their lead negotiator then, Sher Mohamad Abas Stanekzai, seeing that dozens