Section: Pakistan Today (Pakistan)
US envoy on Ukraine, named in Trump scandal, resigns: source
KYIV: US special representative on Ukraine Kurt Volker resigned Friday after Congress ordered him to answer questions in an impeachment investigation on President Donald Trump, a source said. A person familiar with the matter who requested anonymity confirmed Volker’s resignation, which was first reported by the student newspaper at Arizona...
Imran rules out possibility of meeting Modi
–Premier says India is trying to divert world’s attention from its atrocities in Kashmir Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday ruled out any possibility of him meeting his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi on the sidelines of 74th session United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), owing to the latter’s barbaric and illegal actions in...
Kremlin says it hopes US wouldn’t release Trump-Putin calls
MOSCOW: Russia voiced hope Friday that the U.S. administration wouldn’t publish private conversations between the two nations’ presidents like it did with Ukraine. The rough transcript of Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy released by the White House Wednesday shows that Trump urged Ukraine to “look into”...
US military struggles to weed out soldiers with far-right ties
KANSAS: The arrest of a US soldier with far-right sympathies who is suspected of plotting an attack on American soil to spark “chaos” has highlighted a challenge for the Pentagon: purging its ranks of extremists. Jarrett Smith, a private in the US Army based at Fort Riley in Kansas, was arrested and charged in federal court with one count of...
Democrats launch formal Trump impeachment inquiry
WASHINGTON D.C.: Top US Democrat Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday announced the opening of a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, saying he betrayed his oath of office by seeking help from a foreign power to hurt his Democratic rival Joe Biden. The dramatic move — the first step in a complex process that stands little chance of driving...
Trump says he put ‘no pressure’ on Ukraine, as tension mounts
NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump on Monday swatted away mounting pressure from Democrats demanding his impeachment, rejecting accusations he had offered aid to Ukraine only if it investigated his political rival Joe Biden. Battered by the burgeoning scandal during his first full day at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Trump...
Impeachment pressure grows, Trump remains defiant
Pressure escalated Monday for US Democrats to launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, who faces accusations that he sought to extort Ukraine into revealing dirt on his political rival Joe Biden. A defiant Trump said he is taking the impeachment threat “not at all seriously” and sought to make the controversy about Biden,...
Biden urges investigation into Trump Ukraine call
DES MOINES: Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, a frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, on Saturday called for an investigation into reports that President Donald Trump pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate Biden and his son. “This appears to be an overwhelming abuse of power. To get on the phone with a foreign...
President Donald Trump gets heat for urging Ukraine probe
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump urged the new leader of Ukraine this summer to investigate the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, a person familiar with the matter said. Democrats condemned what they saw as a clear effort to damage a political rival, now at the heart of an explosive whistleblower complaint against Trump. It was the latest...
Qureshi leaves for Geneva to attend UN Human Rights Council session
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Monday left for Geneva on a three-day visit. He will represent Pakistan at the 42nd session of United Nations Human Rights Council beginning today. The session is expected to continue for two weeks from September 9 to September 27. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet will...
