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LONDON: The UK’s ruling Conservative Party faces a tough by-election test after former ahmedi MP Imran Ahmad Khan quit parliament on Thursday following his conviction for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy. Khan, 47, who represents the northern English city of Wakefield, said he would resign in order to “focus entirely …

China commended Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s remarks on the construction of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), saying on Wednesday that Beijing was ready to work with Islamabad to continue pursuing high-quality development of the corridor. Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Zhao Lijian told his regular briefing that China wanted to build CPEC …

Pakistan on Thursday termed the Conference of Foreign Ministers from Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) a “resounding success” on all fronts, saying the 57-member Islamic body expressed unequivocal support for the resolution of the longstanding Jammu and Kashmir dispute. “Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of independence, the conference is a …

UNITED NATIONS: A staggering 95 percent of the Afghan population is not eating enough food, with that percentage rising to almost 100 per cent for female-headed households, warns a UN report. The report — released in New York on Tuesday evening — showed that the number of people facing acute …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to press India for conducting a joint probe into the March 9 missile fiasco and rejected New Dehli’s move to hold an internal ‘inquiry’. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi urged the body in a letter written to UNSC President for March …

Prominent religious scholar Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani on Monday expressed shock at the intense war of words "devoid of any restraint” between the mainstream political parties, saying "it is frightening to imagine the extent to which Islamic rules and values are being violated in political disputes.” The remarks from the …

NEW YORK: Pakistan has warned the UN Security Council (UNSC) that adding new permanent members would “multiply the prospects of paralysis” in the council. Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Munir Akram underlined Islamabad’s preferences for UNSC reforms at an informal meeting of the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) in New York on Monday. The …

ISLAMABAD: As part of the government’s efforts to repatriate stranded Pakistanis in war-hit Ukraine, a Pakistan International Airline’s (PIA) chartered flight on Tuesday departed for Poland to bring back the countrymen who were evacuated to Warsaw temporarily following the Russian invasion. According to a spokesperson of the national flag carrier, …

The Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, on Tuesday launched the National Gender Policy Framework aimed at providing a structured mechanism with defined objectives for improving the lives of women and providing them with equal opportunities to excel in a professional sphere. …

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has condemned the “heinous and cowardly” terrorist attack on a mosque in Peshawar. “The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly terrorist attack that took place at the Koocha Risaldar Mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Friday, March …