ISLAMABAD – Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has dismissed the rumours that one Israeli pilot is detained in Pakistan and that only one Indian pilot was captured after the aerial fight between the air forces nuclear-armed neighbours earlier this year. In a briefing at Foreign Ministry on ...

NEW YORK – UN High Commissioner for Human rights Michelle Bachelet said that Indian divisive political agenda has extensively marginalized Muslims and other minorities in the country. In her annual report to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, she said they have received reports about ...

ISLAMABAD - The arrival of a mysterious plane that reportedly took off from Israel and landed in Pakistan - with both having no diplomatic ties - has set the tongues wagging, however, the facts attributed with the said flight reveal an altogether different story. According to the investigations by ...

NEW YORK - Palestine has filed a complaint against the United States with the United Nations top court over Washington's illegal decision to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In a statement issued on Friday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Palestine argues the ...

ISTANBUL - A summit in Istanbul of Muslim heads of state has called for the creation of an international peacekeeping force to protect the Palestinians, as host Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of "brutality" comparable to the Nazis. The 57-member Organisation of Islamic ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday flew off to Turkey to attend the 7th Extraordinary Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Summit called to discuss killings of dozens of Palestinians during protests in Gaza earlier this week. The prime minister left for the brother ...

NEW YORK - Pakistan has expressed full support for any move of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to highlight the plight of the Palestinians, besides deploring the UN Security Council failure to slam brutalities of Israeli forces along Gaza border. Referring to the US move, Pakistan’s ...

ANKARA/ISLAMABAD - Turkey on Tuesday urged Islamic countries to review their ties with Israel and said it would call an extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) after the illegal state forces massacred dozens of Palestinians during protests in Gaza on Monday. The ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has expressed grave concerns over the shifting of the US embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, a move that mounted tension in the region causing the death of at least 58 Palestinians in Israeli forces' firing along Gaza border. As the United States ending its ...

GAZA BORDER- 431 Palestinians were injured on Friday after Israeli troops fired live rounds and tear gas at them, reported Reuters. The victims were present at Gaza-Israel border as part of a long-running protest. According to the media reports, children are among injured.Great March of Return, 6th ...

GAZA - Israeli forces shot dead seven Palestinians on Friday as thousands protested and clashes erupted along the Gaza border a week after a similar demonstration led to the bloodiest day since a 2014 war. The illegal state of Israel pushed up the Gaza death toll for the past seven days to 21 when ...

WASHINGTON - The crown prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman has expressed that Israel has a 'right' to a homeland, signalling a visible shift in the diplomatic policy of the oil-rich state. Mohammad bin Salman, known by the initials MBS made the remarks in an interview ...

GAZA CITY - Palestinians are observing a day of national mourning for at least 17 people who were shot dead by Israeli soldiers at the Gaza border on Friday. Gaza hospitals, running low on blood and overstretched by the huge number of wounded, were reeling after one of the enclave’s bloodiest ...

TEHRAN - Former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been detained by Iranian authorities for allegedly inciting unrest against the government, the London-based daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported Saturday, citing “reliable sources in Tehran.” The newspaper said that Ahmadinejad, during a visit to the ...

TEHRAN - At least 10 people have been killed in the ongoing street protests across Iran, state broadcaster said on Monday without giving details. “In the events of last night, unfortunately a total of about 10 people were killed in several cities,” it said, while showing footage of damage from ...

TEHRAN - Iranian lawmakers on Wednesday voted in favour of a bill recognising Jerusalem as Palestine’s capital, in a symbolic pushback to President Donald Trump's declaration on the status of the holy city. According to Iran’s government-run ICANA news agency, 207 out of 290 lawmakers voted in ...