Taiwan’s main opposition leader will make a rare trip to China on Tuesday, weeks before US President Donald Trump, with Beijing expected to use the visit to increase its influence over the island. Cheng Li-wun, who will become the first sitting chairperson of the Kuomintang (KMT) to travel to China in a decade, said she […]
Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein presented himself as a well-connected insider in the Trump White House to Indian businessman Anil Ambani, who sought guidance on navigating India-US defense cooperation and national security strategy in 2017, according to a New York Times report. Ambani, facing financial troubles later, eagerly reached out to Epstein for “inside baseball” […]
The Artemis astronauts have taken in sights of the Moon never before seen by human eyes, crew members reported on Sunday as their spacecraft crossed the two-thirds mark on their journey to a long-anticipated lunar flyby. As the astronauts went to bed in the early hours of Sunday, closing out the fourth day of their […]
A doctor affiliated with Children’s Hospital was found dead in his car in the health facility’s parking area. The deceased, Dr Ahmed Latif, served in the hospital’s haematology department as in-charge of the blood bank. According to police officials, the body was several days old at the time it was found. Initial reports suggest that […]
A major irregularity has surfaced in the police evidence storage system after packets of narcotics were allegedly replaced with black soap in the police malkhana (store), leading to the arrest of three constables. The incident came to light during the hearing of a narcotics case in the court of the Additional District and Sessions Judge […]
China has surpassed the United States in global leadership approval ratings, marking a significant shift in international perceptions at a time when US President Donald Trump is grappling with his lowest approval ratings at home amid economic strain and a controversial conflict with Iran. A new survey by Gallup shows that China’s global approval rating […]
Balochistan Interior Minister Mir Ziaullah Langove revealed on Sunday that security forces arrested an Afghan Taliban terrorist allegedly involved in the killing of two Federal Constabulary (FC) personnel. Speaking at a press conference alongside Additional Chief Secretary Hamza Shafqaat and Counter-Terrorism Department Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Aitzaz Goraya, the minister said that anti-state elements had been […]
This is not the first time the aura of invincibility surrounding America’s stealth-tipped technological edge in military capability has been punctured. In 1999 — less than a decade after its existence, having long circulated as a subject of speculation, had been publicly confirmed over the skies of Iraq — an F-117 Nighthawk, the original “stealth […]
Pakistan on Sunday questioned the position of United Nations human rights experts regarding the lack of “credible evidence” linking the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) attacks to Afghan soil, pointing to multiple UN and international reports that documented the presence and activities of terrorist groups operating from Afghanistan. Last month, the UN experts had urged Pakistan and […]
Bangladesh said it suspected that measles killed at least 98 children in the past three weeks, official data showed on Sunday, with Dhaka ramping up vaccination efforts in the worst-affected areas. Last week, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman directed two senior ministers to travel across the South Asian nation of 170 million people in an effort […]