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KABUL, Afghanistan — A group of Afghan women protested in Kabul on Saturday, defying a crackdown on dissent to urge foreign nations not to formally recognize the Taliban government ahead of a United Nations summit next week. Protesters opposing creeping curbs on women’s rights have been beaten or detained ...

ISLAMABAD: In a shocking revelation, parents in Pakistan now guard their dead daughters against rape by putting padlocks to their graves, reported Daily Times.Reports have revealed that necrophilia cases are on the rise in the country.That a woman is raped every two hours in a country taking great pride ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan army chief General Asim Munir said on Saturday that the armed forces were fully capable of defending the country, and its "efforts for peace should never be taken as a sign of weakness.”Munir was addressing the passing out parade of cadets at Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) Kakul, ...

SANTO DOMINGO: India wants to ensure that its relations with all countries advance without seeking exclusivity, external affairs minister S Jaishankar has said as he underlined that China falls into a somewhat different category because of the currently 'abnormal' nature of ties which is an outcome of a violation ...

WASHINGTON (US): Cash-strapped Pakistan urged the United States to restore military financing and sales, which was earlier suspended by former America President Donald Trump, according to Dawn. Addressing the seminar in Washington, Pakistan's envoy to US Masood Khan, on Thursday said, "It is important that the US restores, for ...

KOPPAL/BENGALURU: Karnataka BJP MLA and former Union minister Basanagouda Patil Yatnal likened ex-AICC chief Sonia Gandhi to a “vishkanya” (poison maiden) at a poll rally late Thursday, hours after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s “poisonous snake” barb at PM Narendra Modi had stoked a row over political propriety and forced ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday approved an increase of up to 20% in medicine retail prices, with the rise for essential drugs capped at a maximum of 14%, the Finance Ministry said on Friday, as decades-high inflation grips the country.The decision, taken in the cabinet economic coordination committee, had been ...

BEIJING: China’s plan to build a railway link to Pakistan through the disputed Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) region could cost about $57. 7 billion, according to an official feasibility study, which recommended the government to go ahead with the project for its strategic significance, a media report said on Thursday.The ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday reiterated its support for China on the sensitive Taiwan issue as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif spoke to his Chinese counterpart Li Qiang in their first contact since the latter took charge in March.Shehbaz congratulated Li and reiterated Pakistan's "unstinting" support to Beijing's “one-China” policy, as ...

NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh held bilateral talks with Chinese counterpart Li Shangfu on Thursday ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting in the national capital.This is the first time that defence ministers of both the countries held bilateral talks since the deadly Galwan clashes between India ...