Pakistani police have arrested seven Qatari nationals for illegally hunting precious birds in the Nushki district of the Balochistan province. The arrestees are said to include members of the...

Thirteen Pakistani nationals, including eight children and four women, died when fire burnt their makeshift house in rural area west of Amman yesterday morning, news agencies reported. Three others...

Refugees and migrants who have recently been denied entry into Greece said security services there treated them brutally and forced them to return to Turkey. Turkey’s Anadolu Agency interviewed...

Saudi Arabia’s ties with India, which relies heavily on the kingdom’s oil, is set to become even stronger after a new Strategic Partnership Council was established yesterday during Prime...

Pakistan will do its utmost to enable talks between arch regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday in Tehran, adding that he...

The Iranian government announced on Monday that it had received messages from Saudi Arabia through mediators, though it did not disclose the mediators or the content of the messages....

The UN Human Rights Council yesterday voted in favour of extending an investigation into war crimes committed in Yemen. This follows a group of experts on Yemen reporting earlier...

Saudi Arabia and the United States (US) have called on the Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, to help defuse tensions with Iran. Khan yesterday said that he was “acting...

Hamza bin Laden, a son of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and himself a notable figure in the militant group, was killed in a US counter-terrorism operation,...

Pakistan’s Air Force is close to closing a deal with Egypt to buy Dassault Mirage-V aircraft after long negotiations head towards a close. The Egyptian Air Force has retired...

Saudi Arabia and the UAE have sent their most senior envoys to Pakistan as Indian forces are accused of carrying out daily atrocities in occupied Kashmir. The delegation, which...

Almost two million people have been excluded from Assam state’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) published over the weekend cementing fears that Indian President Narenda Modi’s nationalist party is...

Saudi Foreign Minister Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf expressed “concern” Friday about the situation in disputed Jammu and Kashmir after India’s annulment of the decades-long special rights of the disputed...

Pakistani doctors working in the Gulf are facing the sack following Saudi Arabia’s decision not to recognise Islamabad’s postgraduate medical degree programs. Several Arab states have followed suit including...

Russian revolutionary leader Lenin once said, “Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.” If we apply this to Narendra Modi and India,...

The depth of love between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi has few parallels. Many traits unite the current crop of populist, power-hungry, authoritarian...

Two border guards were killed in clashes with militants near the country’s border with Pakistan, according to the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Sunday, reported by Anadolu...

As many as 1,028 foreigners are held by the Saudi authorities on terrorism and harming state security charges, the latest figures about detainees in Saudi prisons revealed. These represent...

Saudi Arabia, Russia, and 35 other states have written to the United Nations supporting China’s policies in its western region of Xinjiang, according to a copy of the letter...

Pakistan’s prime minister on Saturday met Qatari emir, who earlier arrived in Islamabad on an official visit, reports Anadolu Agency. According to a statement by the Prime Minister’s Office,...

A total of 3,771 irregular migrants were held across Turkey over the past week, according to data compiled by Anadolu Agency from security sources. As many as 1,643 irregular...

Pakistani nuclear physicist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan has revealed key facts about the reason behind the 2013 coup against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the role played by the...

Pakistan’s Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution expressing deep sorrow and shock over the death earlier this week of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Anadolu reports....

Tackling female genital mutilation (FGM) should be made a global priority like HIV/AIDs, according to campaigners concerned about the growing evidence that the abusive practice was more widespread than...

Pakistan’s Embassy to Turkey on Tuesday marked Eid al-Fitr, which is the end of Ramadan, with an “Open House” event at the ambassador’s residence in the capital Ankara, Anadolu Agency reports....

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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan warned against the risk of conflict in the region, following a visit to Islamabad by Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif as tensions between Washington...

John Walker Lindh, the American captured in Afghanistan in 2001 fighting for the Taliban, was freed early from federal prison on Thursday after serving 17 years amid concerns he...

Daesh claimed for the first time that it has established a “province” in India, after a clash between militants and security forces in the contested Kashmir region killed a...

The Baloch insurgents who killed 14 people along Pakistan’s coast this week are based in neighbouring Iran, Pakistan’s foreign minister said on Saturday, heightening tensions ahead of Prime Minister...

Mohamed Bin Salman has notched up two awards in his latest tour of Pakistan where the Crown Prince was honoured for championing key humanitarian issues during a trip in...

Four of the Iranian border guards kidnapped last year by a Sunni militant group on the border with Pakistan were released on Wednesday, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said, Reuters...