Section: Pakistan Today (Pakistan)
NATO deploys troops to Poland while concerns about country’s army rise
ORZYSZ: Poland on Thursday welcomed the first US troops in a multi-national force which is being posted across the Baltic region to counter potential threats from Russia.More than 1,100 soldiers – 900 US troops as well as 150 British and 120 Romanians – are to be deployed in Orzysz, about 57 km (35 miles) south of Russia’s Baltic Sea...
Moscow, Washington committed to fighting against terrorism, says Russian FM
MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday Moscow and Washington were committed to fighting terrorism after talks with his US counterpart Rex Tillerson. “We confirmed our common intention of leading an uncompromising fight against international terrorism,” Lavrov said at news conference following the talks. “Despite the...
US denies report that it allowed visa-free travel for Pakistanis
KARACHI: The United States denied that it has allowed visa-free travel for the citizens of Pakistan. A website by the name of USA Television had reported that US President Donald Trump signed a visa-free travel policy with several countries for economic and trade reasons. The report stated, “The US President Donald Trump has signed an executive...
US airstrike destroys fifth of Syria’s warplanes, says Mattis
WASHINGTON: The US strike on a Syrian air base destroyfed a fifth of the Damascus regime s remaining warplanes, Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Monday as Washington fired a fresh salvo of warnings at President Bashar al-Assad. The public assessment of Friday’s missile strike and the forceful rhetoric came as G7 ministers met in Italy to send...
Ukraine military helicopter crashes, killing five
MOSCOW: A Ukrainian military helicopter crashed in the war-torn east of the country on Sunday, killing all five people aboard after apparently hitting a power line, in what is believed to be an accident, the army said. “Five people died in this tragedy — three crew members and two passengers,” army spokesman Oleksandr Motuzianyk said. The...
Trump is an American Assad
As one looks out onto the world stage one can clearly identify the arrival of a new leading politics, one that replaces globalising neoliberalism with aggressive nationalist populism. These circumstances have arisen in the west as a consequence of our acceptance of empire. One specific instance is the US left’s ambivalence regarding the...
Putin meets France’s Le Pen in Moscow
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin met French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen as she visited Moscow on Friday, with the Russian leader stressing that the Kremlin does not meddle in France s politics. Le Pen’s meeting with Putin comes a month before the first round of the French presidential vote and as she tries to boost her...
Ex-Russian lawmaker shot dead in Kiev
A former Russian lawmaker who fled Moscow for Ukraine and was critical of President Vladimir Putin was shot dead in Kiev. Denis Voronenkov was killed Thursday at about 11:40 a.m. near the Premier Palace hotel in the center of Ukraine’s capital, the local police chief said in televised comments. Voronenkov’s bodyguard was injured in...
Ukraine is Pakistan’s reliable, constructive partner: Ambassador Lakomov
ISLAMABAD: The Ukrainian Ambassador Volodymyr Lakomov has said that Ukraine is a reliable and constructive partner of Pakistan and always stood with it at international and regional level. He was addressing at a web-seminar, jointly organised by Embassy of Ukraine in Pakistan, School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR) of Quaid-e-Azam...
FBI head denies Trump wiretap claim, confirms Russia election probe
WASHINGTON DC: FBI Director James Comey on Monday confirmed for the first time that the bureau is investigating possible ties between Republican Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia as Moscow sought to influence the 2016 US election. Comey and Admiral Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, made clear that...
