DAVOS: Prime Minister Imran Khan and US President Donald Trump on Tuesday met here in the Swiss city, which is hosting the World Economic Forum 2020, alongside their delegations. During their meeting on the sidelines of Davos 2020, PM Imran said he would talk to Trump on the situation in Afghanistan. He reiterated that Pakistan wished for peace in the...
DAVOS: Prime Minister Imran Khan and US President Donald Trump on Tuesday met here in the Swiss city, which is hosting the World Economic Forum 2020, alongside their delegations. During their meeting on the sidelines of Davos 2020, PM Imran said he would talk to Trump on the situation in Afghanistan. He reiterated that Pakistan wished for peace in the...
DAVOS: Thousands of miles from his impeachment trial in the United States, President Donald Trump took center stage at Davos on Tuesday to tout the success of the country’s economy. Trump, who is attending his second meeting of global political and business leaders at the World Economic Forum, also told a packed auditorium that recent trade deals with China and...
WASHINGTON: The United States Senate is set for a showdown as President Donald Trump's historic impeachment trial is set to begin on Tuesday, with Democrats calling for his removal from office and Republicans determined to acquit him — and quickly, if possible. Four months after the Ukraine scandal exploded and went on to overshadow the end of Trump's term, and...
Online ticket sale for 2020 Pakistan Super League (PSL) is set to begin tonight at 8pm, according to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). The first batch of tickets will be available for purchase through yayvo.com, whereas general sale will commence from January 28 through dedicated TCS Express Centers across 38 cities. Each customer can purchase up to seven tickets per match on...
TEHRAN: As he addressed Friday prayers in Tehran for the first time since 2012, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said President Donald Trump is a "clown" who only pretends to support the Iranian people. Khamenei said Trump will "push a poisonous dagger" into the nation's back. He said the outpouring of grief at the funeral for Iran's top general,...
WASHINGTON: The historic impeachment trial of Donald Trump opened Thursday in the US Senate, as lawmakers took a solemn oath to be "impartial" in deciding whether to force the 45th US president from office. In a hushed chamber, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, clad in a traditional black robe, raised his right hand as he was sworn in to...
WASHINGTON: Articles of impeachment charging President Donald Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress were delivered to the Senate Wednesday, setting in motion a historic trial that threatens the US leader with removal from office. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell announced that the articles would be formally read to the chamber Thursday at noon (1700 GMT), after which...
MOSCOW: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that the government he heads was resigning to give President Vladimir Putin room to carry out changes he wants to make to the constitution. Medvedev made the announcement on state TV sitting next to Putin who thanked Medvedev, a close ally, for his work. Before announcing the resignation of the cabinet,...
NEW YORK: The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will meet today to discuss the alarming human rights situation in Indian occupied Kashmir, Radio Pakistan reported. According to sources, the ceasefire violations along the Line of Control (LoC) between Pakistan and India will also be discussed in the meeting. This is the second time in less than six months that the UN body is going...
LAHORE: Today is the eight death anniversary of the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional Arfa Karim Randhawa. Arfa Karim Randhawa had passed away on January 14, 2012, after suffering from an epileptic attack. Her untimely death at the tender age of 16 had saddened people in Pakistan and abroad, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates conferred the...
TEHRAN: Iran has signalled it favours a de-escalation after 10 days of heightened tensions with the United States during which both sides fired missiles and Tehran accidentally shot down a passenger aircraft. Security was stepped up in Iran's capital Sunday after a vigil the previous night for those killed in the air disaster turned into an angry protest and police...
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Saturday the United States was monitoring Iranian demonstrations closely, warning against any new "massacre" as protests broke out after Tehran admitted to shooting down a passenger plane. Iran said earlier it unintentionally downed a Ukrainian jetliner outside Tehran, killing all 176 people aboard, in an abrupt about-turn after initially denying Western claims it was struck by a...
Sultan Qaboos, the longest-reigning leader of the modern Arab world, has died at the age of 79, the royal court said on Saturday. “With great sorrow and deep sadness [...] the royal court mourns His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who passed away on Friday,” the court said in a statement. His cousin Haitham bin Tariq, Oman's culture minister, was...
The United Kingdom now has one foot out of the European Union's door after Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit Bill was endorsed by the House of Commons on Thursday. Succeeding where his beleaguered predecessor, Theresa May, had repeatedly failed, the Conservative Party leader saw his EU-agreed framework for leaving the European body backed by 330 members of parliament with 231...
About a year ago, Rosie Gabrielle a Canadian woman, came to Pakistan with just her bike and a sense of curiosity about the country. She traveled to a lot of regions of the country; Lahore, Swat, Multan, Gwadar and beyond. As she traveled within the country and encountered the sights and sounds; the people she felt an affinity with them....
President Donald Trump addressed the US nation Wednesday morning from the White House. de-escalating a crisis with Iran following its missile strikes overnight on two bases in Iraq where US troops are stationed. "I'm pleased to inform you the American people should be extremely grateful and happy," Trump said. "No Americans were harmed in last night's attack by the Iranian...
