Monitoring Desk WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump asserted to Telemundo in a recent interview that the Supreme Court’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) decision has granted him “tremendous powers” that would allow him to sign an executive order granting DACA recipients “a road to citizenship.” “You have breaking news, ” Trump said during his…

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Monitoring Desk NEW DELHI: In just three weeks, India went from the world’s sixth worst-affected country by the coronavirus to the third, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. India’s fragile health system was bolstered during a stringent monthslong lockdown but could still be overwhelmed by an exponential rise in infections. Here is where…

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Monitoring Desk GENEVA: The US welcomes the World Health Organization s probe into the origins of the novel coronavirus in China, its ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva said Friday. “We welcome the WHO s investigation. We view the scientific investigation as a necessary step to having a complete and transparent understanding of how…

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Monitoring Desk RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil surpassed 70,000 coronavirus deaths on Friday, the health ministry said, though the number of daily fatalities appears to be stabilizing. The ministry said there had been 45,000 new infections and 1,200 deaths over the last 24 hours, taking the totals to 1.8 million cases and 70,400 deaths. Brazil, a…

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F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: In occupied Kashmir, in order to suppress the Kashmiris’ ongoing freedom struggle and to create a sense of fear among the masses, Indian troops and police personnel have not even spared the innocent children in the territory. An analytical report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service on Friday, said…

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ISLAMABAD (APP): Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed Friday inaugurated the Supreme Court Bar (SCB) complex. Addressing the participants, he said the SCB had provided five star-like facility to lawyers in the hostels. The apex court was always ready to help the bar, he said and added bench and bar were part of each other…

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KARACHI (TLTP): Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) have decided to adopt a unanimous stance on 18th Constitutional Amendment and National Finance Commission (NFC) Award. This consensus was reached when JUI-F supremo Maulana Fazlur Rehman held a meeting with PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari here on Friday.…

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ISLAMABAD (APP): The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday accepted for hearing an intra court appeal of sugar mills association against formation of sugar inquiry commission. The court declared the case as maintainable but rejected the petitioners’ request for grant of a stay order on actions against sugar mills in light of the commission’s report.…

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F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday called for enhanced international monitoring and continued reporting by the United Nations on the human rights crisis in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir to save lives, dignity and freedom of the Kashmiri people suffering illegal occupation for over seven decades. “Pakistan wishes to underscore the importance of growing international…

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ISLAMABAD (APP): Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based weekly inflation for the week ended on July 09, for the combined consumption group, witnessed an increase of 0.98 percent as compared to the previous week. The SPI for the week under review in the above mentioned group was recorded at 133.62 points against 132.32 points registered in…

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