Foreign Affairs

  Washington: With the increasing COVID-19 threat in Afghanistan which appears ill-equipped to tackle it, the US has decided to withdraw nearly 1,000 its contractors from that country, said a top Pentagon official. "We just issued...

  Washington: In a tough message following the harassment by Iran’s 11 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vessels to six US warships in the Persian Gulf on April 15, US President Donald Trump tweeted while instructing...

Washington: With Pakistan history of nuclear proliferation being a cause of concern, the United States has suspended the export of nuclear byproducts under a blanket general licensing system to the former and led to...

  New Delhi. Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said his country did not require services of the Indian Army team for containing COVID-19 pandemic. ‘We do not need, rather we are sending teams to...

Washington. US Indo-Pacific Command’s sobering assessment demands urgent action as some leaders are already paying attention. Washington. Rep. Mac Thornberry, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, released draft legislation that would require...

  New Delhi. China has begun delivering new VT4 main battle tank from the Inner Mongolia First Machinery Group Company Ltd, subsidiary of China North Industries Group Corporation (NORINCO), reports said. In mid-April, at the Chinese...

  New Delhi. With the world battling COVID-19 pandemic, Pakistan has quietly removed around 1,800 terrorists from its watch list including that of the 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind and LeT operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi ahead...

  Washington. The American Navy is to cut two aircraft carriers from its fleet, freeze the large surface combatant fleet of destroyers and cruisers around current levels and add dozens of unmanned or lightly manned...

  New Delhi: India has expressed concern over the International Monetary Fund (IMF) clearing US$1.4 billion to Pakistan to cope up with economic impact of Coronavirus saying that Islamabad might discriminate against its minorities and...

Washington: United States politician Republican Mac Thornberry from Texas is to move a proposal to formally create a new fund to counter Chinese actions in the Pacific. He is calling for the creation of an...

  Washington. The United States has cleared a pair of foreign military sales that could earn American weapons companies about US$715 million. The first is support and services for South Korea’s planned procurement of the F-35...

  New Delhi. In yet again rebuffing regional cooperation to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, Pakistan on April 8 skipped a video conference of senior trade officials of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC),...

  Washington. The Counter Communications System of the US Space Force still shrouded in secrecy will be used to jam adversaries' communications in a conflict. “It’s a deployable system basically for counter communications. Think of it...