MUMBAI: Superstar Aamir Khan chose to stay mum on the issue of Pakistani film not being screened at the ongoing MAMI festival here and the threats over the release of Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. During the opening ceremony of the 18th Jio MAMI festival, Aamir was asked to give his opinion on the opposition to screening of Pakistani ...

  ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani anti-terror court directed police on Friday to arrest cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and cleric Tahirul Qadri by November 17 in connection with an attack on the Pakistan Television headquarters during a political protest in 2014. Judge Kausar Abbas Zaidi questioned why the police had not submitted a report on implementing the arrest warrants issued by the court ...

The Pakistani authorities have said they support an Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace process as fresh reports emerged regarding the latest secret talks between the Afghan officials and Taliban group representatives in Qatar. “It has been our consistent position that politically negotiated settlement is vital for lasting peace and stability in Afghanistan,” Nafees Zakaria, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...

Renowned screenwriter Salim Khan says that there is no place for discrimination on the basis of language, religion, cast and creed in Bollywood. “Film industry divided? No way. Film industry is the one place where there is no place for discrimination on the basis of language, religion, caste and creed,” the father of superstar Salman Khan tweeted on Wednesday. The ...

KABUL: Afghanistan exported 1,655 tons of pomegranate to India and Pakistan amid an unprecedented rise in pomegranates cultivation in the country this year, local officials in Kandahar said. The head of the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) in Kandahar, Nasrullah Zahir, told RFE that the pomegranates were exported to Pakistan and India as the farmers have freshly started ...

A female Afghan interpreter was reportedly gang raped by a group of armed migrants in a refugee camp located in the remote of Calais in France. According to reports, 35-year-old woman was accompanying a TV crew in the area when she was attacked by the armed men and was raped at knife point. A search operation is underway to arrest ...

KABUL: The Pakistan Super League (PSL), a T20 event including top-class payers, will feature two senior Afghan cricketers. Faced with a fragile security situation, Pakistan will stage the 2017 final of the Twenty20 franchise league in Lahore,with teams flying in and out for the showpiece event. More than 410 players were placed in the draft for the PSLin the United Arab ...

ISLAMABAD : The world’s youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and gamer Sumail Hassan have now made it to Times’ 30 Most Influential Teens of 2016. Sumail Hassan, now 17, won his team Evil Geniuses the Defense of the Ancient 2 (Dota 2) Asian championship in China last year when he was just 15 years old. The team bagged ...

In the entertainment industry, women are being sexually objectified. Though ultra-modernist might acquiesce to it yet conscience of an enlightened individual would condemn it. In every Bollywood song, let alone the item numbers, the male protagonist is surrounded by semi-nude ladies, in which the intimate parts are in-focus. This is what right-wingers in general and feminists particular,  are striving for? ...

REUTERS Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during the third US presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Center on Oct 19 in Las Vegas, Nevada.— AFP Republican candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested he might reject the outcome of the Nov 8 US presidential election if he loses, a possibility his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton called “horrifying”. In their ...