NEW YORK — Microsoft on Thursday said it will shut down career-oriented social network LinkedIn in China, citing a “challenging operating environment” as Beijing tightens control over tech firms. The US-based company will replace LinkedIn in China with an application dedicated to applying for jobs but without the networking features, according to senior vice president […]
COPENHAGEN (Denmark) — A man armed with a bow fired arrows at shoppers in a small Norwegian town Wednesday, killing five people before he was arrested, authorities said. The police chief in the community of Kongsberg, near the capital of Oslo, said there was “a confrontation” between officers and the assailant, but he did not […]
ISLAMABAD — Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan said that United States President Joe Biden has faced “unfair” criticism for the troop pullout from Afghanistan. “The American president took a wise decision,” Imran Khan said during an interview with Russia Today (RT) television. He said intelligence chiefs of Pakistan and the US were in contact over the […]
An Australian car salesman has been jailed for his plans to travel to Kashmir , to avenge his “brothers and sisters” by fighting, if necessary, to die as a martyr, The Age has reported. On Wednesday, judge Justin Hannebery jailed Khaled Temssah for four years and nine months after the father of two pleaded guilty […]
NEW YORK — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla have been named among the world’s 100 most influential people of 2021 by TIME magazine. TIME on Wednesday unveiled its annual list of The 100 Most Influential People of 2021′, a global list […]
NEW DELHI — India on Wednesday hit out at Pakistan as well as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for raising the Kashmir issue at the UN Human Rights Commission and said the grouping has “helplessly” allowed itself to be held “hostage” by Islamabad. At the 48th session of the human rights council, India said […]
ISLAMABAD — The Taliban on Monday asserted that it will not allow any country, including Pakistan, to interfere in Afghanistan’s internal affairs as it confirmed that ISI chief Lt Gen Faiz Hameed met the insurgent group’s de-facto leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Kabul, amidst efforts to finalise a government in the war-torn country. The […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday described China as a “role model” for the developing countries to address poverty, saying Beijing’s high economic growth has brought 800 million people out of penury. Prime Minister Khan was speaking virtually at a forum on the 20th Anniversary of Juncao Assistance and Sustainable Development Cooperation […]
WASHINGTON — Google has temporarily locked down an unspecified number of Afghan government email accounts, according to a person familiar with the matter, as fears grow over the digital paper trail left by former officials and their international partners. In the weeks since the Taliban’s swift takeover of Afghanistan from a US-backed government, reports have […]
WASHINGTON — Any sustainable solution in Afghanistan must include Pakistan, a senior Republican Senator has said. “We all must remember (that) Pakistan is a nuclear-armed nation, and there is a Pakistan version of the Taliban who wishes to topple the Pakistani government and military,” Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted, in an apparent reference to Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan […]
