ISLAMABAD: A Saudi official met Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif on Thursday for discussing regional security and bilateral defence cooperation. “Muhammad Bin Abdullah Al-Ayish, Assistant Defence Minister for Military Affairs, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, visited General Headquarters today and called on Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif,” the ISPR said in a statement. “Matters related to regional security and bilateral defence collaboration including training exchanges came under discussion,” it said.…
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BEIJING — Sometimes the government in Beijing surprises people, by responding to international pressure over human rights. This week, China unexpectedly released from detention two of three brothers of a reporter for Radio Free Asia (RFA), who is based in Washington. All three brothers had been held since the summer of 2014, and their case had attracted significant attention abroad, especially in the United States. It is the fourth time this year that China has…
PARIS — Since the devastating Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, the French police have offered only a fragmentary outline of their response and of how they deployed antiterror teams and other forces. The somberness and solidarity in the weeks since have muted public criticism. No review of the police’s performance has been announced. Yet accounts from survivors and police officials, as well as the analysis of outside experts, make clear that there were substantial periods…
A leader of Afghan Taliban has received medical treatment at Pakistan’s largest research-oriented cancer specialized hospital and radiation oncology centre located in Lahore city, Geo News reported on Thursday. Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan who heads Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH&RC) has told Geo’s Hamid Mir during its program ‘Capital Talk’ that he was unaware of it until he received an appreciation letter from Taliban. Imran Khan has not…