Tag: Leader

Birth anniversary of Chaudhry Rehmat Ali observed on Friday

ISLAMABAD: The birth anniversary of Chaudhry Rehmat Ali was observed here on Friday. He is credited with coming up with the name for a separate...

Rebel leader in east Ukraine killed in blast

MOSCOW: The leader of the Russian-backed separatist Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, Alexander Zakharchenko, is believed to have been killed in an explosion in...

New Amnesty leader slams Trump for breaking up families

JOHANNESBURG: The new leader of Amnesty International says many world leaders, especially President Donald Trump, are rolling back gains made in respecting human rights. Kumi...

Philippine leader approves autonomy law for troubled Muslim region

MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday approved a long-awaited law to allow minority Muslims in the south to start moving toward self-rule by...

Mexico’s next leader delivers plan to Pompeo

WASHINGTON: Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has given a high-level US delegation a proposal for how the two countries can work together on...

Eritrea leader visits Ethiopia today in historic thaw

ADDIS ABABA: Eritrea's President Isaias Afwerki is visiting Ethiopia on Saturday, the latest step in an unprecedented diplomatic thaw between the former archrivals that...

MMA candidate holds PTI leader responsible for Bannu blast

Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) candidate for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly from Bannu Malik Shereen has held Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s Malik Shah Muhammad Khan responsible for...

Popular Sikh leader gunned down in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: Sardar Charan Jeet Singh, an active leader of the Sikh community in Peshawar, was shot dead by unknown assailants in his shop near...

Sharjeel Memon admitted to JPMC

  KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and former provincial minister Sharjeel Inam Memon has been admitted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) following complaints of...

“Car that killed nine children in India belonged to BJP leader”

The tragic road accident on the Muzaffarpur-Sitamarhi highway on February 24, which killed nine children has now started to haunt BJP in the state,...

JI leader shot dead by unidentified men

BANNU: Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) district leader Malik Tufail Ahmed was gunned down by unidentified men, early Sunday morning in Ghoriwala area of Bannu, according to a...

Powell ex-banker to take charge of US Federal Reserve

WASHINGTON: Jerome "Jay" Powell, the Republican former investment banker tapped by President Donald Trump to lead the US Federal Reserve, will take the reins...

Cambodian court rejects opposition leader’s bail

PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian court on Thursday rejected a plea for bail by detained opposition leader Kem Sokha, following his arrest last year on...

Philippine forces arrest top Maoist guerrilla leader

MANILA: Philippine security forces arrested the head of the communist movement’s armed wing following President Rodrigo Duterte’s order to target guerrilla leaders after peace...

Kenyan opposition supporters gather for ‘swearing in’ of leader

NAIROBI: Several hundred supporters of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga gathered on Tuesday morning at a park in downtown Nairobi, determined to “swear in...

Jirga leader says army will bear educational expenses of Naqeebullah’s son

TANK: The leader of a grand Jirga, held by Mehsood and Burki tribes on Sunday, announced that the educational expenses of murdered Naqeebullah Mehsood’s...

Al Qaeda leader calls for killing Jews, Americans over Jerusalem

YEMEN: A senior al Qaeda leader has called on Muslims "everywhere" to rise up and kill Jews and Americans in response to US President...