KARACHI: Textile exports increased 25 per cent year-on-year in the first seven months of 2021-22, data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) showed on Wednesday. The country exported $10.9 billion worth of textile goods in July-January, PBS reported. In January alone, textile sales in foreign markets generated $1.55bn, up 17.3pc from a year ago. The trend line, however, is headed south. January was the second consecutive month in which textile exports recorded a drop over the preceding 30-day period. Monthly foreign sales in January dropped 4.43pc from December. Likewise, the month-on-month decline in December was 6.45pc. According to…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II complained Wednesday about mobility issues, as she carried out her first in-person official engagements since fears emerged that she could have contracted coronavirus last week. In video footage released of the 95-year-old monarch receiving two senior Royal Navy officers at her Windsor Castle residence, she could be heard remarking “as you can see, I can’t move” as she stood while holding a walking stick. Meeting the officers in the Oak Room sitting room at the castle, west of London, she had pointed to her left leg or foot as the area giving her discomfort. Buckingham Palace…
NEW DELHI: Indian tax officials on Wednesday conducted searches at the offices of Chinese tech giant Huawei, the firm said, days after New Delhi banned a host of Chinese apps over national security concerns. Tensions between New Delhi and Beijing have been running high since a deadly 2020 clash involving their militaries in a disputed Himalayan border area. The latest volley from India saw officials from its income tax department search Huawei India’s premises in Gurgaon, on the outskirts of capital New Delhi, and in the southern tech hub of Bangalore, according to the company. “We have been informed of…
CAIRO: Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, said on Twitter on Wednesday that “after weeks of intensive talks, we are closer than ever to an agreement; nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, though”. France said on Wednesday a decision on salvaging Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers was just days away and it was now up to Tehran to make the political choice. Indirect talks between Iran and the United States on reviving the tattered agreement resumed last week after a 10-day hiatus.
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden is ordering the release of Trump White House visitor logs to the House committee investigating the riot of Jan 6, 2021, once more rejecting former President Donald Trump’s claims of executive privilege. The committee has sought a trove of data from the National Archives, including presidential records that Trump had fought to keep private. The records being released to Congress are visitor logs showing appointment information for individuals who were allowed to enter the White House on the the day of the insurrection. In a letter sent on Monday to the National Archives, White House counsel…
UNITED NATIONS: The seven-year war in Yemen has witnessed a dangerous escalation, with January’s civilian casualties the highest in at least three years and eight million Yemenis likely to lose all humanitarian aid next month without urgent new funds, UN officials said on Tuesday. UN special envoy Hans Grundberg and UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths painted a worsening picture of the already dire situation in the Arab world’s poorest nation. They said the past month brought a multiplication of combat zones and the end of January saw nearly two-thirds of major UN aid programmes being scaled back or closed. Yemen…
WASHINGTON: The United States has no choice but to work with Pakistan on the way ahead in Afghanistan, says a senior US official while elucidating the Biden administration’s new policy for the region. At a discussion at the US Institute of Peace in Washington on Tuesday afternoon, US Special Representative for Afghanistan Tom West acknowledged Pakistan’s role in arranging a peace deal with the Taliban but also complained that Islamabad often ignored Washington’s suggestions. “I have productive, good and honest relationships with Pakistani leaders, and they have huge amounts of expertise in their system on these (Afghan) matters,” he said.…
Thirteen women and girls died after accidentally falling down a well during marriage celebrations in northern India, police said on Thursday. The victims were sitting on an iron slab covering the well on Wednesday when it gave way, senior police officer Akhil Kumar told reporters in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh state. District magistrate S. Rajalingam said the well was old and could not take the weight of those sitting on the covering. “The victims fell down and were crushed under the debris,” he said. The women and children had gathered to take part in a marriage ritual in their village. Prime…
The Saudi Arabian army chief paid a “historic and landmark” first visit to India this week, according to a press release from the Indian Ministry of Defence. Saudi Arabia Land Forces Commander Lieutenant General Fahd Bin Abdullah Mohammed Al-Mutair arrived in India on Monday and ended his three-day trip on Wednesday, according to the statement. The press release noted it was the first-ever visit by a serving Royal Saudi Land Forces Commander to India and marked the “deepening bilateral defence cooperation” between the two countries, adding that it aimed to further bolster cooperation. The Saudi chief met Indian Army Chief Manoj Mukund…
The United States on Wednesday dismissed reports that Russia was withdrawing troops from Ukraine’s border, instead accusing Moscow of sending more soldiers as fears of an invasion grow. Russia has increased its presence on the border with Ukraine by “as many as 7,000 troops”, some of whom arrived on Wednesday, said a senior White House official, slamming Moscow’s announcement of a withdrawal as “false”. “We continue to receive indications they could launch a false pretext at any moment to justify an invasion.” The official, who requested anonymity, added that while Moscow has said it wants to reach a diplomatic solution, its actions…
