Day: August 2, 2019

Pakistan will achieve all FATF targets in time: Qureshi

Pak urges US to “persuade” India to start talks on Kashmir

10:08 pm August 2, 2019

Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday urged the US to use its “influence” to “persuade” India to start talks on the peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue. Qureshi’s remarks came after US President Donald Trump said Kashmir was a bilateral matter between India and Pakistan but he would be happy to mediate […]

UK PM Johnson’s Parliament majority down to one after by-election

10:05 pm August 2, 2019

London: Britain’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s already slim parliamentary majority has been cut down further to just one with the loss of an MP to the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrat party in a by-election in Wales. In one of his first major election clashes since taking over from Theresa May last month, Johnson’s Conservative Party […]

Tsunami warning as powerful quake hits southwest Indonesia

10:03 pm August 2, 2019

Jakarta: A powerful earthquake struck off the southern coast of Indonesia’s heavily populated Java island Friday, with the country’s disaster agency warning that it could generate a tsunami. The 6.8 magnitude quake struck offshore at a depth 42 kilometres (26 miles), some 150 kilometres (90 miles) from Labuan, southwest of the capital Jakarta, according to […]

Taiwan president’s bodyguard smuggling scam implicates 76: Spy agency

9:58 pm August 2, 2019

Taipei: More than 70 members of Taiwan’s presidential security detail have been swept up in a cigarette smuggling scandal, the island’s spy agency announced Friday, as its chief took the unusual step of appearing in public to vow a crackdown. The scandal first erupted last month when the customs administration said that an agent within […]

New law on triple talaq challenged in SC

9:55 pm August 2, 2019

New Delhi: The newly enacted law which makes the practice of instant divorce through ‘triple talaq’ among Muslims a punishable offence was challenged in the Supreme Court on Friday. A day after President Ram Nath Kovind gave assent to The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019, ‘Samastha Kerala Jamiathul Ulema’, a religious […]