ISLAMABAD: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday said that his country was ready to cooperate if Saudi Arabia gets serious in resolving the differences. “We have always said stability of Saudi Arabia is in our interest. Similarly, the stability in the region is also in Iran’s interest. We …

ISLAMABAD: Federal Privatisation Minister Daniyal Aziz was indicted on contempt charges by the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The development came as a three-member bench, headed by Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, heard the contempt case against the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader. As the hearing went underway, Justice Mushir Alam read …

ISLAMABAD: Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of Republic of Kyrgyzstan Major General Rayimberdi Duishenbiev called on Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa at General Headquarters (GHQ) on Tuesday in Rawalpindi. During the meeting, matters of mutual interest including military-to-military relations, regional security situation and measures …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto on Tuesday categorically said that the party will not compromise on the 18th Amendment or the 1973 constitution. “There seems to be a lot of conspiracy theories about the fate of the 18th amendment. Let me make #PPP position clear; the fundamentals …

Karachi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday remarked during a hearing that marriages could not be considered dissolved without completion of legal procedures, holding that a verbal divorce held no legal value. The SC Karachi registry was hearing a case of a woman demanding monthly expenses from her husband. The court …

ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday demanded Axact company’s tax records in light of the fake degrees scandal and that of its news channel Bol TV from the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR). Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Saqib Nisar termed the allegations against Axact as serious, questioning the officials …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) declared on Wednesday that Rao Anwar, the high-profile absconding police officer in the Naqeebullah Mehsud murder case, had requested to unfreeze his detained accounts in a letter. Mehsud, a 27-year-old native of Waziristan, was among three killed on January 13 on the orders of Malir …

NEW YORK: Nobel Prize laureate and activist Malala Yousafzai is working on her next book about refugees and their plights. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers told Associated Press on Monday that Yousafzai’s ‘We Are Displaced’ will come out Sept 4. The book will combine her own experiences with accounts …

Eladio Sanchez is unimpressed by the eight border wall prototypes looming over his house in Tijuana, Mexico, almost within spitting distance of where US President Donald Trump will visit Tuesday. At age 30, he has already snuck over the border several times, and doesn’t expect Trump’s wall will have much …

BEIRUT: After seven years of war in Syria, the United Nations has one thing to say: Stop the war on children. The numbers speak for themselves. Of Syria’s estimated 10 million children, 8.6 million are now in dire need of assistance, up from about half a million after the first …