Srinagar: An American trophy hunter has paid $100,000 (£78,000) to kill a rare markhor or “screw horn” goat, the national animal of Pakistan. Fewer than 6,000 markhors exist in the wild, most living among the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the animal features on the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species. Nonetheless, local officials […]
Nairobi: Five people have died after a small plane carrying them from Kenya’s Maasai Mara nature reserve crashed in the west of the country, police said Wednesday. “There were five occupants in the plane and they did not survive,” said Edward Mwamburi, police chief for the Rift Valley region. He said the Cessna plane was heading […]
Washington: A top US commander has advocated sustained American engagement with Sri Lanka despite the political and ethnic turmoil in the island nation posing a challenge to bilateral ties, amid increasing Chinese influence in the strategically important Indo-Pacific region. US Indo-Pacific Command chief Adm Philips Davidson told the Senate’s Armed Services Committee during a Congressional […]
Srinagar: Members of the Uighur Muslim ethnic group have called on China to post videos of their relatives who have disappeared into a “vast system of internment camps”. The social media campaign, launched early Tuesday under the hashtag #MeTooUyghur, follows the release of a Chinese state media video showing famed Uighur musician Abdurehim Heyit, who […]
Srinagar: Former Afghan interim president and anti-communist guerrilla Sibghatullah Mujaddadi has died. Sibghatullah Mojaddedi was born on 21 April 1925. He served as president after the fall of Mohammad Najibullah’s government in April 1992. He was the founder of the Afghan National Liberation Front and served as the chairman of the 2003 Loya Jirga, the […]
Beijing: China hit back on Monday against Turkish criticism over its treatment of ethnic Uighurs and denied Ankara’s claim that a renowned poet from the Muslim minority had died in custody. “China has already made solemn representations toward Turkey. We hope the relevant Turkish persons can distinguish between right and wrong and correct their mistakes,” […]
Jerusalem: Israeli forces rounded up 22 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military on Monday. The individuals were arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terrorist activities”, the army said in a statement, without elaborating on the nature of these activities, Anadolu News reported. The Israeli army frequently […]
Srinagar: The United States is likely just weeks away from starting the withdrawal of ground troops from Syria ordered by President Donald Trump, the top US commander overseeing American forces in the Middle East has said. US Army General Joseph Votel, head of the US Central Command, cautioned that the exact timing would depend on […]
In an exclusive interview with Dawn.com, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid has said that if the Taliban do end up having a say in the Afghan polity one day, they will approach Pakistan “as a brother and a neighbour”, seeking “comprehensive ties based on mutual respect, just as we seek such relations with all other neighbours.” He […]
Istanbul: The death toll has risen to 21 from the collapse of an eight-storey apartment building in Istanbul, Turkey’s interior minister announced Saturday night. Speaking at a crisis center near the scene in the Kartal district, Suleyman Soylu said 14 people had been rescued from the rubble with injuries since the incident happened on Wednesday. […]
