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Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has named US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu as the American official who has been making 'threats' towards him and his government, Dawn reported on Monday....

Islamabad: Imran Khan will continue to serve as the prime minister of Pakistan till a caretaker premier is not appointed under Article 224-A(4) of the country's Constitution, according to a notification issued by President Dr Arif Alvi 's office,...

Berlin: Berlin declined Kiev's request to supply 100 Marder infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) to Ukraine, German media Welt reported on Sunday, citing defense sources.Last Wednesday, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov sent a letter to the German Defense Ministry...

Colombo: A Sri Lankan official on Sunday described media reports claiming that Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa may step down today, as rumours.As per Information Department Director-General Mohan Samaranayake, "The rumours to the effect that the Prime Minister is...

Islamabad: Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday said that Prime Minister Imran Khan and all characters involved in the "conspiracy" against the nation are guilty of high treason and should be tried under Article 6 of...

Islamabad: Pakistan military has nothing to do with whatever happened in the National Assembly (NA) on Sunday, Director General Inter-Services Public Relations Major General Babar Iftikhar said.While responding to the question whether the military was involved in Sunday's...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has not refused to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meaning a summit remains a distant possibility, Kremlin spokesman said on Sunday."Putin has never refused to meet and a meeting is hypothetically...

Colombo: The Sri Lankan government has imposed nationwide social media blackout after midnight on Sunday restricting access to social networking sites to prevent the mass-gathering for protest against the government for economic crisis.The move came following the announcement...

Washington: Guantanamo Bay inmate Sufiyan Barhoumi, who spent nearly 20 years at the detention facility, had finally been repatriated to Algeria, according to US officials.According to BBC, Barhoumi was captured at a safehouse in Pakistan with a top...

Kabul: The Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada on Sunday banned in a decree the cultivation of opium poppy and trade of opium in Afghanistan, the Taliban-led caretaker government confirmed."As per the decree of the supreme leader of Islamic...