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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Ex-PM Nawaz Sharif, while speaking to reporters at the accountability court on Tuesday, “rejected” the National Security Committee’s (NSC) statement from yesterday, terming it “painful and regrettable”. He stuck to his stance on the remarks regarding the Mumbai attacks made during an exclusive interview with Dawn published on ...

DHAKA: A stampede by thousands of poor villagers outside the home of a businessman distributing alms ahead of Ramzan killed at least 10 women and injured about 50 people, police in southeast Bangladesh said. It is a custom for Muslims to donate money or goods to the poor before or ...

KABUL: The Taliban launched attacks from multiple directions on a city in western Afghanistan early Tuesday, killing and wounding at least six security forces, officials said. Fared Bakhtawer, head of the Farah provincial council, said the insurgents overran several security checkpoints in the provincial capital of the same name and ...

BEIJING: China’s first domestically manufactured aircraft carrier started sea trials yesterday, state media said  a landmark in Beijing’s ambitious plans to modernize its navy as the Asian giant presses its claims in disputed regional waters. The carrier, known only as “Type 001A,” set out for the trials from a port ...

SEOUL: North Korea said Saturday that it will dismantle its nuclear test site in less than two weeks, in a dramatic event that would set up leader Kim Jong Un’s summit with President Donald Trump next month. Trump welcomed the “gracious gesture.” In a statement carried by state media, North ...

ISLAMABAD: US defe­nce attaché Col Joseph Hall involved in a fatal road accident was on Saturday stopped from flying out on an American military aircraft by the Federal Inves­tigation Agency (FIA). Col Hall had reached Nur Khan Air Base for boarding the aircraft that had come to take him but ...

JAKARTA: Suicide bombers suspected to be from an Islamic State-inspired group killed at least 11 people and wounded 40 in attacks on Christians attending Sunday morning services at three churches in Indonesia’s second-largest city of Surabaya, security officials said. Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, has seen a recent resurgence ...

JAKARTA: Muslim scholars from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Indonesia issued an edict on Friday saying that violent extremism and terrorism, including suicide attacks, are against Islamic principles, in an effort to convince the Taliban to end its violence. Seventy prominent Muslim scholars from the three countries issued the fatwa at a ...

WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD: Pakistan imposed travel restrictions Friday on U.S. diplomats in a response that could strain relations between the two nations. Under the new restrictions, U.S. diplomats are restricted from movements in the country and will no longer receive special treatment at airports. The diplomats will also be unable to use ...

GOA: Four people, including a woman, were arrested by police in the Indian state of Goa for allegedly killing a man and then disposing of the body in a forest area after cutting it into pieces, an official said. The woman, identified as Kalpana Bassu (31), killed her husband Basauraj ...