The age-old saying “aapada mein avsar”, meaning turning disaster into opportunity, found a real-life expression in Karachi’s Malir Jail, where over 200 inmates used earthquake-triggered chaos as a ticket to freedom. As the ground shook in eastern Karachi on Monday night, so did the security of the city’s Malir Jail. A large number of inmates…
Russia and Ukraine each exchanged 307 of their service personnel on Saturday, on the second day of an extended prisoner swap set to be the largest in the three-year war. US President Donald Trump has suggested the swap – which should see 1,000 prisoners released on each side over three days – could herald a…
US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that a major prisoner swap between the two nations has been completed in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. “A major prisoners swap was just completed between Russia and Ukraine. It will go into effect shortly. Congratulations to both sides on this negotiation. This could lead to something big???,” Trump…
Ukraine and Russia conducted a swap of more than 500 prisoners of war on Saturday, the latest in a series of exchanges since Russia launched a full-scale invasion more than three years ago. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in a post on the Telegram messaging app, said 277 Ukrainian service personnel had returned home from Russian…
NEW DELHI: London high court on Tuesday rejected Indian government’s application to appeal in the UK Supreme Court against the discharge of Sanjay Bhandari, a defence consultant wanted on charges of tax evasion and money laundering. The judgement also said that Bhandari, in Tihar jail, would be at risk “of extortion and violence” from “other…
For years, the Palestinian administration in the occupied West Bank has doled out hundreds of millions of dollars in stipends to the families of Palestinians jailed or killed by Israel — including those involved in violent attacks. The United States and Israel have long condemned the payments and pressured the Palestinian Authority to end them….
Hamas gunmen released three more hostages and Israel freed more than 180 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday, quickly conducting the latest exchange in a tense cease-fire deal and avoiding the chaos that marked a drawn-out transfer earlier this week. Hamas released two of the hostages, Yarden Bibas, 35, and Ofer Kalderon, 54, in a highly theatrical…
They became a potent symbol of Israel’s hostage crisis after video from the Hamas-led 2023 attack showed Palestinian militants leading away a distraught mother clutching her two small red-haired sons. Another video showed the father of the same family being spirited away to Gaza on a motorcycle, his head bloodied. On Friday, Hamas said the…
Israel and Hamas exchanged a new group of hostages and prisoners on Thursday in a handover that devolved into chaos as the armed militants struggled to control a chanting, jostling crowd of Palestinians trying to catch a glimpse of Israelis held captive during 15 months of war. Hamas released a total of eight Israeli and…
Samar Faisal stood among a crowd in the crisp winter air, shivering as much from her excitement as the cold. She was in disbelief, she said, that this day had come. Her brother, after spending more than 20 years in an Israeli prison, was being released. “I’m anxious and praying for the moment I finally…