ISLAMABAD: In a contact with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) on Saturday completely disassociated itself from the recent incident in Islamabad in which Asad Ali Toor, a digital media journalist, was brutally tortured. A press statement by the ministry said that the allegations against the intelligence agency were part of […]
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Manhunt in France after knife attack on policewoman
A man attacked a police woman with a knife in western France on Friday, seriously wounding her and sparking a manhunt, local police said. The suspect, still armed, was on the run after the attack in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre near Nantes, and police dispatched 80 officers to pursue him, a police source said. The BFMTV station […]
Pakistan condemns Israel’s attack on worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem
Pakistan on Saturday strongly condemned the attack on worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, third holiest in Islam, in Jerusalem by the Israeli forces who fired rubber bullets and stun grenades amid growing anger over the eviction of Palestinians from their homes on land claimed by Jewish settlers. “We pray for speedy recovery of injured, reiterate our […]
Man attacks family with acid in Bahawalnagar
BAHAWALNAGAR: A man threw acid on wife, as well as her two brothers and a sister-in-law, with acid over a family fight here in Faqirwali on Wednesday, police said. The woman was living at her parents’ home after a dispute with her jobless husband Abbas. When Abbas went to his in-laws to bring his wife […]
Saudi Aramco has emerged from attacks ‘stronger than ever’: CEO
RIYADH: Saudi Aramco has emerged from attacks on its oil facilities “stronger than ever,” Chief Executive Amin Nasser told employees in a message, adding that full oil production would resume by the end of this month. The Sept. 14 attacks on the Abqaiq and Khurais plants, some of the kingdom’s biggest, caused raging fires and […]
Taliban attack third Afghan provincial capital in a week
KABUL: The Taliban have attacked a third provincial capital in Afghanistan in less than a week, with an overnight assault on the western city of Farah, a provincial governor said Friday as a US envoy was back in Qatar for further talks on a US-Taliban deal to end America’s longest war. Mohammad Shoaib Sabet said […]
End Syria hospital attacks, Russia told at UN
UNITED NATIONS: Russia on Thursday opposed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an end to attacks on health facilities in Syria’s Idlib region, diplomats said after the latest meeting over violence in the country’s last major opposition bastion. The outcome led to a rare statement following the meeting by the UN’s humanitarian chief, […]
Suspected car-ramming attack wounds Israeli soldiers: army
A suspected Palestinian car-ramming attack in the occupied West Bank has wounded five Israeli soldiers and the alleged assailant has been arrested, the Israeli army said Sunday. The troops were stationed on a roadside near the Palestinian town of Hizma as part of “operational activity” on Saturday night when the driver of a car rammed […]
Biden under attack as 2020 Democrat rivals urge passing of torch
Frontrunner Joe Biden faced repeated criticism on multiple fronts Thursday from his Democratic rivals for the 2020 presidential nomination, including calls to leave the battle to oust Donald Trump to a younger generation. In a sometimes scrappy showdown of the Democratic heavyweights, Senator Kamala Harris landed several blows on Biden in the second of two […]
Trump in new Twitter attack on London’s mayor
US President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack Saturday on London Mayor Sadiq Khan, backing a right-wing British columnist who has been widely accused of Islamophobia and once called migrants “cockroaches.” Trump attached his latest denunciation of the mayor to a retweet by Katie Hopkins about crime in “Khan’s Londonistan” — using a term widely […]