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DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates said on Monday it was redeploying and reducing troops across war-torn Yemen and moving from a “military-first” strategy to a “peace-first” plan. The UAE is a key partner in a Saudi-led military coalition which intervened in Yemen in 2015 to back the internationally recognised government …

WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Imran Khan is going to the United States on an official working visit, which includes a meeting with the US president at the White House. Read: PM Imran Khan to meet US President Donald Trump on July 22 This will, however, not be a state visit as …

Photo Courtesy: Australian Women’s Cricket Team/Twitter Ellyse Perry’s stunning bowling performance helped Australia clinch a resounding 194-run victory over England in Canterbury in the third ODI and cleansweep the three-match series 3-0. Perry finished with career-best figures of 7-22 in a brilliant display of fast bowling. The pacer bagged 5-12 …

A complete shutdown, marked by curfew imposed by Indian forces, was observed across occupied Kashmir on Monday to commemorate the third martyrdom anniversary of Burhan Muzaffar Wani, an iconic young mujahid commander, Kashmir Media Service (KMS) reported. The shutdown call was issued by the Joint Resistance Leadership in order to …

  The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has planned to support Pakistan with indicative lending of up to $10 billion for various development projects and programmes during the next five years, according to an official announcement. ADB and the government held a series of consultations to formulate a new Country Partnership …

Four cases of polio were reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan on Monday, taking the total number of cases detected across the country this year so far to 41. According to the KP Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), two new cases of polio were found in Bannu district; the crippling disease …

  Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Maryam Nawaz warned on Monday of staging a hunger strike outside the Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore if her father, Nawaz Sharif, was not allowed homemade food. Nawaz, who has thrice been the prime minister of Pakistan, was sentenced to seven years in prison after …

China on Monday said “unilateral bullying” by the United States was the cause behind the escalating Iran nuclear crisis, after Tehran announced it was set to breach its uranium enrichment cap. “The facts show that unilateral bullying has already become a worsening tumour,” said Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang …

    Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Monday that no compromise would be made on democracy in the state, come what may. Addressing a rally in Dir, the PPP chairman alleged that the “selected” prime minister wanted to snatch away democratic rights from the people. “Imran …

When plainclothes police arrested newspaper editor Ghulam Jeelani Qadri, his peers in Indian-occupied Kashmir saw it as just another attempt by New Delhi to squeeze the media working in the blood-soaked region. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in power since 2014, has tightened the screws on the part of Kashmir occupied …