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Washington , August 16 (ANI): A US-based Sindhi organisation, along with Balochis and Pashtuns, on Saturday staged a protest against enforced disappearance outside the residence of Pakistan's Ambassador to the US, Asad Majeed Khan, in Washington. During the protest outside the Pakistani ambassador's house, Munawar Laghari, Executive Director of ...

Nowhere is that more true than at the State Department, presided over by one of Mr. Trump’s most loyal aides, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. When he took office in early 2018, Mr. Pompeo pledged to fill the scores of empty senior positions he inherited, reengage career staff and ...

Trump called Harris, a skilled polemicist and former state attorney general, “mean” and “nasty,” the latter an adjective experts say is often used to demean and dismiss women in politics. Opponents on the far right are trying to conjure nativist arguments against her candidacy. Her supporters, though, see the ...

Growing up desi in suburban Georgia, this — what the writer Tanuja Desai Hidier called “Spot the Indian” — was a game of emotional survival. When my parents arrived in the United States in the late 1980s, they were among less than half a million Indian Americans. Public spaces ...

Prisoner releases on both sides are part of an agreement signed in February between the U.S. and the Taliban. It calls for the release of 5,000 Taliban held by the government and 1,000 government and military personnel held by the insurgent group as a good will gesture ahead of ...

NEW DELHI: India has suggested to Pakistan that the talks for discussing pending issues under the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) be held through video-conferencing in view of the coronavirus pandemic, but Islamabad has been insisting that the parleys be conducted at the Attari check post, sources said on Sunday. ...

The World Bank has expressed its inability to take an independent decision on the appointment of a neutral expert or a Court of Arbitration for the settlement of a long-pending water dispute between India and Pakistan, saying the two countries will have to bilaterally choose one ...

The Taliban announced Tuesday they won’t carry out military operations in Afghanistan for three days during the Muslim holiday of Eid ul Adha that starts this weekend.In a statement promising a brief respite to the fighting, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahed said commanders have been ordered not to carry out ...

AFP File photoWASHINGTON: "Distrust and Verify" will be the new American approach towards Beijing, the United States said on Thursday, declaring that the age of "appeasing China" is over, while laying out serious charges of theft and spying against the country’s communist regime and its military. In further deterioration ...