Islamabad 04 August 2017 (Daily Dawn) Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday called for the formation of a special committee to investigate the allegations of harassment levelled against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan by MNA Ayesha Gulalai. The premier was addressing the National Assembly shortly after his cabinet took oath at a ceremony...

Tokyo 03 August 2017 A major blaze has broken out at Japan’s world-famous Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. Dozens of firefighters and 30 fire trucks are at the scene of the fire, which broke out at around 0500 PM on Thursday, or 8am GMT. Tsukiji is the largest wholesale fish and seafood market in the...

London 02 August 2017 (Misc Media) Buckingham Palace issued short release read as “His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh has decided that he will no longer carry out public engagements from the autumn of this year. In taking this decision, The Duke has the full support of The Queen.' “Prince Philip will attend previously...

Doha 03 August 2017 (Gulf Times) The economic blockade and the political scenario in the region is an opportunity to revisit how the Philippines can support Qatar on its food security strategy, an official of the Philippine Business Council- Qatar (PBC-Q) has said. PBC-Q chairman Greg Loayon said the Philippines has available plots of land...

Tehran 03 Aug 2017 (IRNA) An informed source acknowledged on Thursday that visa for Iranian diplomatic team has been issued by Saudi Arabia. He said that Saudi Arabia issued visa for Iranian diplomatic team on Wednesday evening by 40 days delay. The source told IRNA that the team supposes to depart for Saudi Arabia on...

Tehran 03 Aug 2017 (IRNA) Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a ceremony here on Thursday endorsed the Iranian president-elect, Hassan Rouhani, who won the majority of votes on May 19 presidential elections. Heads of the three branches of power in Iran, military officials, Ulema, academics and an array of...

Bengaluru, India 02 August 2017 (NDTV) Karnataka minister DK Shivakumar was raided by taxmen today and picked up for questioning from a luxury resort in Bengaluru where he was staying with 43 lawmakers flown in from Gujarat by the Congress to check a rash of defections. The minister was at the Eagleton Golf Resort since...

Washington 02 August 2017 (TASS) US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday he planned to meet with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in person in the Philippine capital Manila over the weekend. "I will be meeting face-to-face with Foreign Minister Lavrov this weekend on the margins of the (ASEAN and East Asia Summit)...

Islamabad 01 August 2017 Today Pakistani parliament re-elected ruling party Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz Group) candidate as Leader of the House by voting 221 in favour against Peoples Party candidate who obtained 41 votes, Pakistan Tehrik Inmsaf 33 votes and 4 votes went to Jamaat Islami candidate Sahibzada Tariq. Ruling Pakistan Muslim League is headed...

Montreal, Canada 01 August 2017 (QNA) Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti, Minister of Transport and Communication of Qatar said that in the 70 years of aviation history no country was subjected to a siege and a severe violation of international laws, like the one the State of Qatar was subjected to by the blockading countries. In...