NEW DELHI, Jan 26 (FD):  Mulayam Singh Yadav is a name associated with the late former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was a staunch opponent of the Hindu right. Now the Bengaluru police have arrested a young man with the same name, from the same state, accusing him of bringing an alleged Pakistani girl to India after befriending …

  KARACHI, Jan 26 (FD):  PML-N leader and finance czar Miftah Ismail said on Thursday took a dig at Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, saying his actions yielded nothing but damages to Pakistan. Talking to a private news channel, the former finance minister said he was incognizant of the facts as to why Mr Dar was brought to Pakistan to spearhead …

  CHINA, Jan 26 (AFP): The number of daily Covid-19 deaths in China has fallen by nearly 80 per cent since the start of the month, authorities have said, in a sign that the country’s unprecedented infection surge may have started to abate. A wave of virus cases has washed over the world’s most populous nation since Beijing abruptly ended …

  An Ambassadorial meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Member States, convened by Pakistan, condemned the recent abhorrent act of desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden and in Netherlands. Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Munir Akram presided the meeting. In a statement, the meeting said those vile acts were recent manifestations of Islamophobia. The …

  LAHORE, Jan (25):  A court in the Punjab capital on Wednesday adjourned hearing on a petition, seeking transit remand of PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry, who was arrested for threatening the electoral body, to shift him to Islamabad, for later today. The PTI stalwart was arrested from his residence in Lahore in wee hours of Wednesday after he was booked …

  LAHORE, Jan 25  (FD):  Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday condemned the arrest of party bigwig Fawad Chaudhry for allegedly threatening the officials of the top electoral body. In a tweet, the former prime minister said: “Fawad s arrest on his apt description of the CEC [chief election commissioner] leaves no doubt in anyone s mind that Pak[istan] has …

  ISLAMABAD, Jan. 25 (INP): Gwadar will have 100 Megawatts of additional electricity from March 1 from Iran, Gwadar Pro reported on Thursday quoting Director General Gwadar Development Authority (GDA) Mujeeb-ur-Rehman Qambarani. “Insha’Allah Gwadar will have 24/7 power supply, this will boost industry, tourism and real estate business in Gwadar,” Mr. Qambarani wrote on his Twitter. To fulfill the electricity …

  ISLAMABAD, Jan 25 (FD):  The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday de-notified 43 more Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) members of the National Assembly (MNAs) following the acceptance of their resignations. After the announcement of PTI MNAs’ return to the National Assembly, the federal government made a move to accept their resignations in an apparent bid to reduce the number …

  MUMBAI, Jan 25 (FD):  India has invited Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to a meeting of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) that it is hosting in May, Indian media reported on Wednesday, signalling a possible thaw in relations between the nuclear-armed rivals. The invitation came days after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called for talks with India over all outstanding issues, …

  WASHINGTON, Jan 25 (FD):  The US Justice Department sued Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday, accusing the company of abusing its dominance of the digital advertising business and said Google should be forced to sell its ad manager suite, in the government’s latest jab at thwarting Big Tech’s market power. The lawsuit tackles a business at Google that is responsible for …