International

13-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: At least one person has been killed and four others wounded in an explosion that hit a vehicle in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, officials said. The incident on Saturday took place in Dasht-e Barchi, a Kabul suburb dominated by members of the …

13-11-2021 GLASGOW: Negotiators at this year’s United Nations climate talks are poring over fresh proposals aimed at sealing a deal that could credibly be said to boost the world’s efforts to tackle global warming. British officials chairing the COP26 talks in Glasgow, Scotland, released new draft agreements on Saturday after …

13-11-2021 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: US President Joe Biden is expected to hold a hotly awaited virtual summit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Monday, US media reported, as tensions mount over Taiwan, human rights and trade. Both CNN and Politico, citing unnamed sources, said the meeting was tentatively scheduled for …

12-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ NANGARHAR/ ISLAMABAD: An explosion has hit another Shia mosque in the Spin Ghar area of Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan during Friday prayers, killing at least three people and wounding 15 others, according to residents and Taliban officials. A doctor …

12-11-2021 STOCKHOLM/ DHAKA/ LONDON: Bangladeshi-Swedish writer and feminist Taslima Nasreen is “shocked” over the news of Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai marrying a Pakistani man. Shortly after Malala announced that she has tied the nuptial knot with PCB official, Asser Malik, and shared photogrpahs of her big day, felicitations started pouring …

12-11-2021 LONDON/ DUBAI/ KARACHI: A London High Court has ruled that the decision to extradite Pakistani businessman Arif Naqvi to the United States should be delayed until a legal test on the capacity to resist the impulse of suicide is made in the case of Indian diamond tycoon Nirav Modi, …

11-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/KABUL/ WASHINGTON: The new US special envoy for Afghanistan Thomas West will visit Pakistan this week for a meeting with the Taliban foreign minister and senior diplomats from China and Russia, a Pakistani official and the US State Department said. It …

11-11-2021 MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY/ BEIJING: Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Raj Kiran Grewal, who lives in Mohali in India’s Punjab state, saw Australia as the ideal place to do her MBA but after spending 20 months trying to get around the country’s ultra-strict border controls, Grewal is so sick of “false hopes” …

11-11-2021 LONDON: The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has blocked a planned 3.2 billion-pound ($4.3bn) British class action against Google over allegations the internet giant unlawfully tracked the personal information of millions of iPhone users. Britain’s top judges unanimously granted Google an appeal against the country’s first such data privacy case …

10-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: India is hosting senior security officials from Russia, Iran and five Central Asian countries to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, but no Afghan representative is in attendance. India’s archrival Pakistan and China also declined to attend the Delhi Regional …