At least nine people died and authorities said they feared the toll could rise as high as 40 in a fire that broke out during a rave at a converted warehouse in the San Francisco Bay Area. Oakland fire chief Teresa Deloche-Reed said at least another 25 people were unaccounted for as of Saturday morning and authorities were working to ...

Continuing his tirade against the government, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said he will be contesting in the 2018 general elections and is confident that he will win. “I will become the next prime minister of Pakistan,” Bilawal said addressing party workers in Lahore on Saturday. Criticising Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Bilawal said the premier had failed to ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Saturday said Iran is willing to mediate between Pakistan and India over the long standing issue of Kashmir, reported DawnNews. “The bond we have with India and Pakistan is important to us, we hope for the best for both countries,” said Zarif. “If Iran can be of any help to any of them, we ...

The US President-elect Donald Trump spoke with the Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani to discus issues of bilateral interest, including the joint fight against terrorism, it has been reported. The Trump transition team informed regarding the discussions between President Ghani and President-elect Trump, according to Reuters. “The two men discussed the grave terrorism threats facing both countries and pledged to work ...

The president-elect of the United States Donald Trump vowed support under his upcoming administration to help unearth Afghanistan’s massive natural resources which include some of the world’s rare earth elements. Trump made the commitment during a tlelphone conversation with the Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani. Trump said Afghanistan has considerable natural resources and his administration will be prepared to assist ...

While reading the autobiography of Bacha Khan Baba, one could argue that little has changed concerning the plight of Pashtun people, particularly the people of the FATA, since the time of British Colonial rule. In fact it seems as though one set of colonisers has been merely exchanged for another.   Bacha Khan discusses that in 1901, the British introduced ...

The tale of independence and partition of India has been trumpeted and touted by different narrators. It is up to the story-teller who makes it reflect each time in a divergent version. When we turn over leafs of the text books– which are drilled into schooling-minds at school and colleges levels – plethora of questions bubble up out of the ...

The most glaring irony of the “federal, parliamentary democratic system” of Pakistan is that we congratulate ourselves when our elected assemblies complete their constitutional term (so far that has happened only once) and we also do the same when an army chief retires on the expiry of his tenure! Historically, apart from imposing outright martial laws, the deep state has ...

Tashkent, Uzbekistan: Over 21 million voters are ready to exercise right to vote in Uzbek Presidential Elections while the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Uzbekistan has finalised all arrangements to conduct extraordinary early Presidential elections on December 4, 2016. There are over 21 million registered voters in Uzbekistan who look excited to cast their vote to directly elect their new ...

RAWALPINDI (Monitoring Desk): Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa said on Friday that every ceasefire violation along the Line of Control (LoC) will be responded to with full force and in an effective manner. During a day-long visit to the 10 Corps Headquarters, Rawalpindi, Gen Bajwa said “Each violation of any kind must be responded to with full force in the most effective manner,” Inter-Services ...