Jakarta: Indonesia has ditched a controversial plan to buy 733 million euros ($790 million) worth of Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets previously used by Qatar, the defence ministry spokesperson said late on Saturday."There is no purchase of Mirage jets. Even though it was planned, it has been cancelled, meaning there is no active contract," spokesperson Dahnil Anzar Simanjuntak said in a statement, but

Members of polling staff counting votes for parliamentary elections, in KarachiImran Khan’s PTI claims that it won 154 seats, but dozens were taken away in alleged widespread vote rigging and manipulationThe plot has got more murkier in Pakistan after the announcement of election results. Incarerated former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed candidates have stunned

Islamabad: Amid rigging allegations in the Pakistan general elections by Independents, the country’s army chief General Syed Asim Munir on Saturday said the diverse polity and pluralism will be "well-represented by a unified government of all democratic forces" imbibed with national purpose, The Express Tribune reported."Pakistan’s diverse polity and pluralism will be well-represented by a

Islamabad: After the recent elections, both the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) are strongly pursuing paths to establish governments in the Centre, Punjab, and Baluchistan, as per Dawn.Both parties are proceeding cautiously, guarding their strategies while delicately negotiating the contours of a potential power-sharing arrangement.Today, PPP leader Asif Ali