Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has cancelled a planned visit to Malaysia under pressure from Saudi Arabia, according to a number of diplomatic sources. In what will be seen as a deeply humiliating episode, Khan took the decision after being summoned to Riyadh for talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Khan had earlier accepted an invitation from Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad to attend a summit next week in Kuala Lumpur. Middle East leaders expected to attend include Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim Hamad al-Thani, Turkish President RecepRead More

ISLAMABAD: Terming the high treason trial against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf “unfair”, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government on Tuesday decided to defend the self-exiled, ailing ex-president during the hearing of an appeal to be filed on his behalf. “I will defend the law in the case but not any individual,” said Attorney General Anwar Mansoor in the late-night joint press conference that he addressed along with Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan. He said former president Musharraf had not been given the right ofRead More

UNITED NATIONS  – China has postponed a discussion by the U.N. Security Council planned for Tuesday about the situation in the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir because the U.N. peacekeeping mission there was not ready to provide a brief, diplomats said. The Himalayan region has long been a flashpoint in ties between nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan, with both claiming Kashmir in full but ruling it in part. U.N. peacekeepers have been deployed since 1949 to observe a ceasefire between India and Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir. China’s U.N.Read More