Section: Pakistan
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Putin reviews Russia’s ‘invincible weapons’ on Red square
MOSCOW: Russia’s Vladimir Putin watched advanced jets carrying a hypersonic missile he has touted as invincible scream over Red Square on Wednesday, days after the start of his fourth presidential term. Part of an annual event marking the Soviet Union’s World War Two victory over the Nazis, Putin looked on as thousands of troops...
Revolution sweeps Armenian opposition leader into power
YEREVAN: Opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan was elected Armenia’s prime minister on Tuesday, capping a peaceful revolution driven by weeks of mass protests against corruption and cronyism in the ex-Soviet republic. Moscow, which has a military base in Armenia, is wary of an uncontrolled change of power which would pull the country out of its...
Pakistani national pleads guilty; failed to register as US foreign agent
WASHINGTON: A Maryland man has pleaded guilty to charges that he failed to register as a foreign agent in connection with lobbying work he did for the Pakistani government in an effort to shape US foreign policy, the Justice Department said on Monday. The newly unsealed case against Nisar Ahmed Chaudhry, a Pakistani national and US permanent...
No longer great people to fly with
Scenarios that could easily take place in Pakistan In December 2004, a massive tsunami caused the death of 62,000 people in Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. If even one of these countries had had a viable warning system and an evacuation plan, these deaths could have been prevented, but they did not. A few years prior to 2004, a meteorologist in...
Another patient dies of Congo fever in Multan, death toll rises to three
MULTAN: Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic fever, commonly referred to as Congo fever has claimed another life in Multan district of Punjab. The Congo fever had claimed two lives in Multan, earlier this month. According to media reports, six patients affected by the dangerous virus were brought to Nishter Hospital, one of them is dead and two others are...
Navalny, hundreds of supporters detained at anti-Putin rallies
MOSCOW: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained along with more than a thousand of his supporters on Saturday during nationwide rallies against Vladimir Putin as police used force to break up rallies in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.Riot police beat protesters with truncheons, dragged them along the ground and threw them into police...
Police in Russia detain opposition leader, activists before Putin’s inauguration
MOSCOW: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and hundreds of anti-Kremlin activists were detained by police on Saturday during street protests against Vladimir Putin ahead of his inauguration for a fourth presidential term. Navalny had called for people to take to the streets in more than 90 towns and cities across the world’s largest...
US judge says Mueller should not have ‘unfettered power’ in Russia probe
WASHINGTON: A federal judge said Special Counsel Robert Mueller should not have “unfettered power” in probing ties between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia, and accused Mueller of using criminal cases to pressure Trump’s allies to turn against him. At a tense hearing in a federal court in Virginia on Friday, US District...
US Navy to re-establish its Second Fleet targeting Russia
WASHINGTON: The United States Navy is re-establishing its Second Fleet, responsible for the northern Atlantic Ocean, nearly seven years after it was disbanded as the Pentagon puts countering Russia at the heart of its military strategy. “Our National Defence Strategy makes clear that we’re back in an era of great power competition as the...
What effect will Ramadan have on the Champions League final?
Liverpool booked their place in the Champions League final with a 7-6 aggregate victory over Roma on Thursday, although the clash with Real Madrid in Kiev on May 26 will fall during Ramadan. Ramadan begins on May 15 and is a month of incredible importance to followers of Islam, it requires practicing Muslims to fast from dawn until sunset, this...
