Local residents gather to offer funeral prayers for victims who were killed in a tribal clash, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kurram district, on October 13, 2024. —AFP The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has declared Kurram a “disaster-hit” district following months-long…
Son of ousted Bangladesh PM Hasina denies graft in $12.65bn nuclear deal
Ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son and adviser on Tuesday described allegations of corruption involving the family in the 2015 awarding of a $12.65 billion nuclear power contract as “completely bogus” and a “smear campaign”. Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission said on Monday it had launched an…