Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday said that the Kashmiri freedom movement would not be suppressed by Indian “brutalities” anymore, even as the political leadership of the country put forward a united front on the issue. Sharif said “their (Kashmir) struggle for self-determination was legitimate and in accordance with UN resolutions”. “Kashmiris and Pakistanis […]
In joining the Paris climate agreement, India has taken a bold and decisive step in combating climate change, the US has said.A “We commend Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his leadership and thank all those who have worked on the Agreement over many years,” US Ambassador Richard Verma said in a statement on Sunday. India’s […]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed India formally joining the Paris climate change agreement. “India now joins the 61 other parties that have deposited their instruments of ratification, which, including India, together account for close to 52 per cent of total global greenhouse emissions,” Xinhua news agency cited a statement released by Ban’s spokesperson as […]
With harsh rhetoric as the brand image of the 2016 US presidential election, an overwhelming majority of voters have said that this year’s race has brought out the worst in people, according to a new poll. The new Monmouth University poll showed 70 per cent of registered voters believed that the matchup between Democrat Hillary […]
World leaders gathered on Friday morning in Jerusalem to bid farewell to one of Israel’s founding fathers and former President Shimon Peres. More than 70 delegations from around the world attended the funeral, including dignitaries such as US President Barack Obama, former US President Bill Clinton, Britain’s Prince Charles, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and […]
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is leading Republican rival Donald Trump by 4 per cent after their first televised debate, according to a poll. The poll published by the Public Policy Polling (PPP) institute on Thursday showed Clinton received the support of 44 per cent of the 933 voters consulted in telephone or online interviews, […]
Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi is set to meet UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday to inform him about the “surgical strikes” that India carried out on terrorist launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC). On Thursday, Lodhi met with New Zealand’s UN Ambassador Gerard van Bohemen, who is the current president of the […]
Following the Indian Army’s surgical strikes against terror launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, the US has called for steps to avoid steps that escalate tensions between India and Pakistan. “Our message to both sides has been the same, in terms of encouraging them to increase communication to deal […]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s spokesman has refused to be drawn into a controversy over whether India and Pakistan were “getting ready to go to war”, saying he would only reiterate earlier statements that called for dialogue between the two nations. Asked by a reporter on Wednesday if Ban had spoken to Prime Ministers Narendra […]
The US State Department has agreed to process for public release before the November 9 election almost 3,000 pages of Democratic nominee Hillary Clintons emails recovered by the FBI during their recent probe. A federal judge previously ordered the State to review 1,050 pages of the Clinton messages before the election. The deal that State […]