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ISLAMABAD: While Islamabad is being slammed over the kidnapping and assault of the Afghan envoy's daughter, Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed tried to evade the responsibility by terming the horrific incident an "international conspiracy". Despite the Afghan government's sharp response against the kidnapping, the Pakistani minister went on ...

KABUL, Afghanistan Afghanistan recalled its ambassador from Pakistan days after the envoy's daughter was abducted and “severely tortured” in the capital Islamabad, Afghan officials said on Sunday.Waheed Omar, an aide to Afghan President Mohammed Ashraf Ghani, said on Twitter that the Foreign Ministry has been directed to ensure that ...

#Pakistan News Fast News The envoy and other senior diplomats would be back to Kabul until all the security threats are removed, Afghanistan said, a day after the daughter of the Afghan ambassador was briefly kidnapped and tortured in Islamabad. In this November 19, 2020 file photo, Afghan President ...

Banihal: Two minor siblings died and two others were injured on Saturday after their house was gutted in a fire in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district, officials said. The fire broke out in the house of Rajesh Kumar due to leakage of an LPG cylinder in Maitra-Rajgharh area, they ...

Doctors rose to the occasion during the Covid crisis but the same cannot be said about our public health system, which itself is on the ventilator. Often, government and civic hospitals are so filthy that infections acquired there undo the efforts of the health workers. Embarrassingly, in the run-up ...

The Ministry of External Affairs on Friday confirmed reports that a drone had been spotted over the premises of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad on June 26. Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said India has officially taken up the matter with Pakistan. “We expect Pakistan to investigate the incident ...

Amos Yadlin, the former IDF chief of Military Intelligence, said he was concerned about Iran’s nuclear program on Sunday, after a major power cut that halted uranium enrichment at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility. Unidentified intelligence sources told Hebrew media that Israel’s Mossad security service was behind the power outage. ...

Anantnag woman injured in fire incident succumbs at Srinagar hospital On Thursday, a woman from Anantnag district in south Kashmir died at SMHS Hospital in Srinagar after suffering burn injuries as a result of a gas leak a few days ago. Raja Banoo, 54, wife of Abdul Qayoom of Mattan, had suffered over fifty percent burn injuries in the incident.   She was first shifted to a nearby hospital from where she was referred to SMHS hospital in Srinagar, ...

After a stormy year dominated by a catastrophic pandemic, economic crises and international tensions, it is comforting in one way or another that we are faced with a global threat that appears as if it were a mockery. Writers David Fekilling and Anjani Trivedi say in a report published ...

Iran is investigating an incident in which at least two Iranians were shot dead this week at the border with Pakistan, and Islamabad has handed over the body of one of the victims, the Iranian foreign ministry said on Friday.Monday’s shooting of at least two people carrying fuel across ...