Russia-Ukraine war

AFP/APP Frankfurt: Germany and the Czech Republic on Friday blamed Russia for a series of recent cyberattacks, prompting the European Union to warn that Moscow would face consequences for its "malicious behaviour in cyberspace". The…

AFP/APP Kyiv: Russia admitted two years into its invasion of Ukraine on Friday that it was "in a state of war" as it launched a massive wave of missile and drone attacks on its neighbor's territory. Russia fired almost 90 missiles and…

AFP/APP Washington: The United States on Tuesday approved a $2.2 billion sale of advanced battle tanks to Bahrain, a Gulf Arab ally once under an arms embargo over a crackdown on Shiite dissent. The State Department said it had…

News Desk  Rawalpindi: The Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) in Rawalpindi was put on high alert to deal with any emergency as intermittent rain continued in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Friday.  According to WASA…

AFP/APP Moscow: A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced top human rights campaigner Oleg Orlov to two and a half years in jail for denouncing Russia's assault on Ukraine. The 70-year-old, a key figure of the Nobel Prize-winning memorial…

Xinhua/APP Moscow: A Russian Mi-8 helicopter with three crew members crashed during a training flight over Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia on Monday. The helicopter belongs to the Northwest Aviation and Rescue Centre of the…

AFP/APP New Delhi: Indian purchases of Russian crude in defiance of Western pressure over the Ukraine war have fallen to an 11-month low as the price tag on the discounted oil rises, figures show. Since the invasion of Ukraine nearly two…

Asem Mustafa Awan The alarm bells are ringing, and with floods and upcoming monsoons, the picture appears bleak. The United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP) has done the needful and it is time the government took measures to secure…

Ishtiaq Ahmed Much is being written and talked about the political and economic impact of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and how this may lead to a shift in the balance of power between the east and west. The energy crisis that…

Ishtiaq Ahmed The inability to control the spiralling cost of living, prevent the worsening of law & order situation and now a renewed threat to the internal security of Pakistan brought ahead by the Peshawar tragedy, amongst other…