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U.S. to drop Houthi terrorist designation due to Yemen crisis
World

U.S. to drop Houthi terrorist designation due to Yemen crisis

  • The United States intends to revoke the Houthi movement’s terrorist designation in response to Yemen’s humanitarian crisis, reversing one of the Trump administration’s most criticised last-minute decisions.
  • The move, confirmed by a State Department official on Friday, came a day after President Joe Biden declared a halt to U.S. support for the Saudi Arabia-led military campaign in Yemen, which is widely seen as a proxy conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Updated 06 Feb, 2021 07:04pm
U.S ‘grateful’ to Pakistan for appealing acquittals in Daniel Pearl case
World

U.S ‘grateful’ to Pakistan for appealing acquittals in Daniel Pearl case

  • The United States Department of Justice released a statement thanking the Pakistan government for appealing against a court order acquitting Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was convicted over the 2002 beheading of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
  • This controversial decision is now being appealed separately by the Pakistani government, and by Pearl's family in the Supreme Court; stating that Sheikh's release from prison would endanger the public.
Published 30 Dec, 2020 07:33pm
U.S. can play a "critical role" in India-Pakistan dispute, says Ambassador Asad Khan
World

U.S. can play a "critical role" in India-Pakistan dispute, says Ambassador Asad Khan

  • It is time that the international community understood not only India's destabilizing activities in the broader region but also their authoritarian tendencies at home under the current Hindu nationalist government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
    • Ambassador Khan reiterated that over the past decade, Pakistan has managed to substantially reduce the number of terrorist attacks (by "non-state actors) in the country.
Updated 19 Dec, 2020 12:50pm
APS tragedy united nation against terrorism: Shahbaz Gill
Pakistan

APS tragedy united nation against terrorism: Shahbaz Gill

  • “Six years ago, there was a brutal and inhuman terrorist attack on APS and innocent people were brutally killed in bombs and suicide blasts but today we are talking about economic growth and development due to return of durable peace in the country,” he said.
Published 16 Dec, 2020 05:20pm