KARACHI: Taking part in the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged member countries, to join forces to fight “radicalization and extremism”, voicing concerns about the heightened risk of Islamist fundamentalism. An article, that appeared in Haaretz two days ago, noted that according to Modi, religious …
Read More »Dubai Expo to welcome millions in biggest event since pandemic
DUBAI: Millions of people will begin converging on Dubai this week as the Covid-delayed Expo 2020, the world’s biggest event since the pandemic, finally unveils its gleaming pavilions in the desert. The Expo site in the dusty Dubai suburbs has remained strictly off-limits during its year-long postponement but the wraps …
Read More »Britain puts military on standby as panic buying leaves pumps dry
LONDON: Britain put the army on standby to deliver fuel from Tuesday after an acute shortage of truckers triggered panic buying that left fuel pumps dry across the land and raised fears that hospitals would be left without doctors and nurses. Queues of drivers snaked back from those petrol stations …
Read More »Pentagon leaders to face Afghanistan reckoning in Congress
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden’s top military leaders are expected to face some of the most contentious hearings in memory this week over the chaotic end to the war in Afghanistan, which cost the lives of U.S. troops and civilians and left the Taliban back in power. The Senate and House …
Read More »Modi’s fall from grace in US
LAHORE: For a long time, BJP-led India’s relentless surrender to fascism and gross human rights violations record had been seamlessly papered over by flowery claims and projections of being the “biggest secular democracy” and seemed to raise no eyebrow among its Western allies. But on Wednesday, it all seemed to …
Read More »Chevening scholars have become ‘leaders’ in Pakistan: British envoy
British High Commissioner Christian Turner has said that Chevening scholars in Pakistan have become leaders in both the public and private sectors. “Our Chevening alumini from Pakistan have become leaders in government, industry & elsewhere. I met inspirational former #Chevening scholars in #Karachi tonight,” he said in a tweet from …
Read More »Senior US official to visit Pakistan, India after Taliban takeover
WASHINGTON: US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will travel next month to Pakistan and India, bitter rivals that have clashed on the way forward in Afghanistan, the State Department announced on Monday. Sherman, after CIA chief Bill Burns, will be one of the first high-level officials under President Joe …
Read More »At UN, Israeli PM says Iran has crossed all nuclear ‘red lines’
NEW YORK: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday that Iran had crossed “all red lines” in its nuclear programme and vowed that Israel would not allow Tehran to acquire a nuclear weapon. In his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Bennett said Iran sought to dominate …
Read More »No one from Afghanistan will address world leaders at UN
UNITED NATIONS: No representative from Afghanistan will address the annual high-level UN General Assembly in New York after the ambassador for the government ousted by the Taliban – who was due to speak on Monday – withdrew his name. The move comes amid competing claims for Afghanistan’s UN seat in …
Read More »Pfizer begins study of oral drug for prevention of Covid-19
The drugmaker has been racing to develop an easy-to-administer antiviral pill for Covid-19 Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) said on Monday it has started a large study testing its investigational oral antiviral drug for the prevention of Covid-19 infection among those who have been exposed to the virus. The drugmaker and its …
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