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Islamabad, Sept 7: Pakistan's new government cancelled the appointment of a renowned Princeton economist to its Economic Advisory Council, after a strong backlash against the choice of a member of the Ahmadi religious minority, an official said on Friday. The failure of Prime Minister Imran Khan's government to resist pressure to drop economist Atif Mian reflects the increasing clout of hardline

Washington, Sept 7: Donald Trump on Thursday called on the New York Times to reveal the name of the "coward" who wrote an explosive, anonymous article that has plunged his presidency into its worst crisis yet. The White House has been convulsed by a fevered hunt for the senior official who declared, in an unsigned article for The New York Times published Wednesday, that "unsung heroes" were

New York, Sept 7: Twitter is permanently banning right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his "Infowars" show for abusive behaviour. The company said Jones won't be able to create new accounts on Twitter or take over any existing ones. Twitter said Jones posted a video on Wednesday that violates the company's policy against "abusive behaviour." The video in question showed Jones shouting at

Washington, Sept 6: Pakistan currently has 140 to 150 nuclear warheads and the stockpile is expected to increase to 220 to 250 by 2025 if the current trend continues, according to a latest report by authors keeping a track of the country's nukes. The current estimate of 140 to 150 nuclear weapons exceeds the projection made by the US Defense Intelligence Agency in 1999 that Pakistan would have 60

Washington, Sept 6: The US president is acting in a manner that is "detrimental to the health of our republic", an anonymous senior official wrote in The New York Times on Wednesday, with Donald Trump terming it "treason" and "gutless". In the op-ed titled "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration", the official said he and like-minded colleagues have vowed to thwart parts of

London, Sept 5: The head of Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) Hyrbyair Marri welcomed the United States administration's decision to cancel USD 300 million dollars of Coalition Support Fund (CSF) to Pakistan. In a statement, Marri said, "We welcome the (Donald) Trump administration's decision to cancel the CSF to Pakistan. Millions of dollars would have been used by Pakistan Army to maintain its

Shannon, Sept 5: United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that issues like India buying Russian missile defence systems and Iranian oil exports to the country would be discussed in the upcoming 2+2 dialogue, but also added these issues will not be the primary focus. "They're part of the conversation. They're part of the relationship. They will certainly come up, but I don't think they

Washington, Sept 4: U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies Iran and Russia not to “recklessly attack” Syria's rebel-held Idlib province, warning that hundreds of thousands of people could be killed. “The Russians and Iranians would be making a grave humanitarian mistake to take part in this potential human tragedy. Hundreds of thousands of

Beijing, Sept 4: Chinese funds are not for "vanity projects" in Africa but are to build infrastructure that can remove development bottlenecks, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday, telling Chinese firms they also had to respect local people and the environment. Xi said at a business forum before the start of a triennial China Africa summit their friendship was time-honoured and that China

Kabul, Sept 4: The founder of the Haqqani network, one of Afghanistan's most effective and feared militant groups, has died after a long illness, their allies the Afghan Taliban announced on Tuesday. Jalaluddin Haqqani, whose son Sirajuddin Haqqani now heads the brutal group and is also the Taliban's deputy leader, died "after a long battle with illness", the Taliban said in a statement