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KARACHI: Pakistani police arrested the son-in-law of the country’s exiled former Nawaz Sharif on Monday after he led a crowd in chanting against the military at the tomb of the country’s founder.The arrest of Mohammad Safdar comes as Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League party has joined a series of nationwide ...

LONDON: Pakistan has denied its involvement in the ongoing Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, following a claim by the Armenian prime minister that Pakistani troops were fighting alongside Azerbaijani troops. In an official statement released on Saturday, the Pakistani foreign office said it regretted Armenia’s decision to resort to “irresponsible propaganda” and ...

KARACHI: TikTok will be unblocked in Pakistan if the platform removes “vulgar” content, a government minister said Saturday. The Chinese app was banned for failing to remove “immoral” content after being given time to comply with instructions from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). Information and Technology Minister Syed Aminul ...

The media watchdog in Pakistan has blocked TikTok, citing the video-sharing app’s failure to moderate “immoral and indecent” content. The ban came into effect immediately, with users reporting trouble accessing the service. The decision was announced by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Friday.The watchdog said it had repeatedly ...

ANKARA: Social media giant Facebook’s decision not to appoint a company representative in Turkey could mark the beginning of the end for the platform in the country, according to an industry expert.  New Turkish government regulations, which went into effect on Oct. 1, require all social media firms to ...

LONDON: The UK government is considering building detention centers for asylum seekers in foreign countries, including Morocco, as part of moves to transfer its asylum process off the British mainland, according to official documents seen by The Guardian. Morocco is among a number of suggested sites that the government ...

ISLAMABAD: The head of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah, told Arab News that Pakistan has "promised" to help convince the Afghan Taliban to agree to a cease-fire. Abdullah spoke to Arab News on Wednesday before leaving Pakistan after a three-day visit to Islamabad. The cease-fire has ...

MINSK: Police in Belarus detained more than 350 people at nationwide protests on Sunday, the Interior Ministry said.Masked police dragged people into vans and fired stun grenades and tear gas to disperse crowds as tens of thousands marched for a seventh straight weekend to demand veteran Belarusian leader Alexander ...

PARIS: More than one million people have died from the coronavirus, according to an AFP toll, with no let-up in a pandemic that has ravaged the world economy, inflamed diplomatic tensions and upended lives from Indian slums and Brazilian jungles to America’s biggest city.Sports, live entertainment and international travel ...

Pakistan: Indian fire kills 1 soldier in Kashmir /node/1740651/world Updated 27 sec ago September 27, 2020 05:17 Pakistan: Indian fire kills 1 soldier in Kashmir India and Pakistan routinely accused each other of unprovoked attacks along the tense Kashmir frontier Pakistan says India has violated the truce more than ...