30-10-2021 VATICAN CITY/ GLASGOW: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited Pope Francis to visit his country – a significant turnaround after negotiations for a papal visit to India collapsed in 2017. The invitation came after Modi shared images of his first private meeting with the Pope at the Vatican. …

30-10-2021 GLASGOW: Climate change and COVID are top of the agenda of leaders from the world’s major economies meeting in Italy. It is the first time the G20 leaders are meeting face-to-face since the start of the pandemic. However, China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin are not in Rome …

30-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ PESHAWAR/ UNITED NATIONS: KABUL: The Taliban government has sent an envoy to run the Afghan embassy in the Pakistani capital, senior Taliban sources said, as the new administration starts to take over Afghanistan’s network of foreign delegations. Mohammad Shokaib was …

30-10-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI/ GOA: Aryan Khan, the son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, has been released from a jail in Mumbai after he was arrested during a cruise ship drugs bust in a case that has gripped India. Aryan, 23, the eldest son of the actor …

30-10-2021 WASHINGTON: A detainee held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre has offered the first public account in a United States court, of torture at a CIA clandestine facility during Washington’s decades-long so-called “war on terror”. Majid Khan, a former resident of a Baltimore suburb, detailed being water-boarded, physically and sexually …

29-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE/ LONDON: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), an independent organization but under the direct supervision of ‘Pakistani State’ administrative control usually known as ‘a tool’ that has been using against opponents and anti-state particularly impartial media outlets of Pakistan has …

29-10-2021 WASHINGTON: The Department of Justice announced an $88m settlement on Thursday with victims of a white supremacist who shot dead nine Black churchgoers in South Carolina in 2015. The settlement stems from allegations that the FBI was negligent when it failed to prohibit the sale of a gun by …

29-10-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BEIJING/ WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: India has tested a ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead up to 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles), the defence ministry said, in what media called a “stern signal” to China as the two remain locked in a border spat. …

29-10-2021 KHARTOUM: Security forces have clashed with protesters furious over a military coup that derailed a fragile transition to democracy and sparked an international outcry, with the United States and United Nations dialing up the pressure on Sudan’s new military government. At least one protester was killed on Thursday, according …

28-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies TEHRAN/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Senior officials of Afghanistan’s neighboring states have gathered in Iran’s capital for a one-day conference to discuss the situation in the Taliban-ruled country. The foreign ministers of Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan met on Wednesday in Tehran, …