Kabul, Dec 17: Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle in Kabul around 830am on Sunday, Kabul police reported, and two female judges of the Supreme Court were killed and two other people–the driver and another female–were wounded in the attack, according to the Presidential Palace, tolo news reported. The police are investigating the incident, said […]
New Delhi, Jan 14: Donald Trump has become the first US president to be impeached twice, All India Radio (AIR) reported. The House of Representatives voted last night to charge him with inciting last week’s mob attack on US Congress. Trump was impeached by 232 – 197 vote by the US House on a single […]
New Delhi: US President Donald Trump has been permanently suspended from social network app Twitter due to the risk of further incitement of violence, All India Radio (AIR) reported In a statement Twitter said the decision was made after close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account. “The social media platform also d new […]
New York: Four people died on the U.S. Capitol grounds Wednesday and 52 people have been arrested, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert J. Contee said Wednesday evening, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in an unprecedented effort to stop Congress from certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory. According to news agency Reuters, […]
Kabul: US forces left one of their biggest bases in Afghanistan–in Logar province–and handed it over to Afghan forces, local officials said. The base once hosted at least 18,000 troops. It is located 76 miles south of Kabul in Logar province, Tolo news reported The last US forces numbered 300 in FOB (forward operating base) […]
Kabul: Nisar Ahmed Faizi Ghoryani, the Afghan Minister for Industry and Commerce, on Wednesday met Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad and the two discussed issues around bilateral relations including the expansion of a railway line project between the Afghan cities of Mazar-e-Sharif – Kabul and Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, […]
New Delhi, December 30: In the UK, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved for use, with the first doses due to be given soon amid rising coronavirus cases, All India Radio (AIR) reported. The government has ordered 100 million doses – enough to vaccinate 50 million people, the report said Health Secretary Matt Hancock said, […]
Kabul, Dec 26: Kabul started the first day of the week with four explosions that happened in less than three hours in various parts of the city, adding to the panic among the people who have been witnessing similar incidents nearly every day over the last few weeks. Police and security sources said that at […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran and his top national security aides on Thursday vowed to go all out for defending the country in case of aggression, Dawn newspaper reported. The resolve was expressed during a meeting held between Prime Minister Khan and Army Chief Gen Qamar Bajwa and Director General Inter-Services Intelligence Lt Gen Faiz Hameed. […]
New Delhi, December 22: European Union has approved the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, All India Radio reported. The first phase of the 27-nation bloc’s mass vaccination programme to begin later this week. The EU’s executive commission gave the green light just hours after the European Medicines Agency said the vaccine meets safety […]
