JERUSALEM: Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara on Friday for the first time in a corruption case that involves the country’s largest telecommunications company, Israel Radio said. Police confirmed that an anti-corruption unit had questioned the couple for several hours each, but did not say …

WASHINGTON: The Uni­ted States has assured Pakistan that it does not want to sever bilateral ties with this important ally while Islamabad extended its “wholehearted support” to the US-backed Afghan offer of peace talks with the Taliban. The two statements supplement renewed efforts to improve relations between the US and …

Bollywood star Anushka Sharma’s upcoming film Pari has been banned in Pakistan. Chairman Central Board of Films Censors Islamabad Mubashir Hassan confirmed the news and said, “it (Pari) flouts various sections of the existing rules and code of CBFC. Innumerable dialogues and scenes are against the established religious, social and …