A Pakistani court yesterday branded former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a fugitive in ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s murder trial, but acquitted five men accused of being involved in the 2007 assassination, reports AFP from Rawalpindi. The verdicts are the first to be issued since Bhutto,…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has urged Washington not to use force against North Korea, as tensions surged after the latest missile test by Pyongyang, reports AFP from Moscow. In a phone call late Wednesday with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Lavrov "underscored...the need to refrain…

Repeated attempts by the Department of Shipping (DoS) to get all speedboats, sand-carriers, bulkheads, trawlers, and fishing boats registered have failed, allegedly due to the interference of some local politicians. At least 500 speedboats in Mawa and around 1 lakh sand carriers, bulkheads, trawlers,…

Both the Dhaka city corporations said they would remove approximately 35,000 tonnes of waste of sacrificial animals within 24 hours during Eid-ul-Azha to keep the capital clean. Sources in the city corporations said it is a big challenge to dispose of such garbage as soon as possible, but claimed they…