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  • Nigar Khana — historical house of handicrafts

    MULTAN: Nigar Khana, just opposite the mausoleum of saint Shah-Rukn-i-Alam, is known as a house of handicrafts which has been selling antiquities and cultural and artistic items for over 45 years...

    Abdul Waheed, who took over the business from his father, Abdul Hameed, has been running Nigar Khana for the last 30 years...

  • Yemen’s Saleh keeps friend and foe guessing after skirmish with Houthi allies

    DUBAI: Yemen’s ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh appears to have patched up a violent rift with his allies in the armed Houthi movement, but the drama has left friends and foe alike wondering anew at the wily political survivor’s next move...

    Forming a surprise alliance with the Houthis when they seized the capital Sanaa in 2014, Saleh’s army loyalists and Houthi fighters have together weathered thousands of air strikes by a Saudi-led...

  • Yemenis pour out in support for former president Saleh

    Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis descended on Sanaa on Thursday in a major show of force for former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, whose alliance with the country's Houthi rebels has been shaken by mutual distrust...

    Tensions have been rising between Saleh and his one-time foe, rebel chief Abdul Malik al-Houthi, who joined ranks in 2014 in a shock alliance that drove the Saudi-backed government of Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi out of the...

  • Yemen rebel alliance unravels as Saleh turns to Saudis

    Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who joined forces with the Iran-backed Huthi rebels to seize the capital in 2014, said on Saturday he was ready to talk to the Saudi-led coalition if it lifts a crippling blockade on Yemen...

    His sudden about-face sparked warnings of retribution by the Huthis, whose leader accused Saleh of “great treason”...

  • Former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh killed

    Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen's former president and longtime strongman who ruled the country for over three decades, was killed on Monday, according to multiple Yemeni officials, as his loyalists and Houthi rebels battled for control of the capital...

    The Houthi-run Masirah TV announced the death of the “leader of the traitors” on Monday, referring to Saleh, who until last week was in a fragile alliance with the rebels...

  • Saleh’s exiled son takes up anti-Huthi cause

    SANAA: The powerful exiled son of Yemen’s slain ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh vowed on Tuesday to lead a campaign against the Huthi movement that killed his father after he switched sides in the civil war...

    The intervention by Ahmed Ali Saleh, a former leader of the elite Republican Guard once seen as a likely successor to his father, gives the anti-Huthi movement in Sanaa a potential figurehead, after a week of fighting that saw...

  • Yemen’s Saleh open to negotiations with rival Saudi Arabia

    SANAA: Yemen’s ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh is open to negotiations with rival Saudi Arabia, two years into a deadly war between Saleh’s Huthi rebel allies and the Saudi-backed government...

    “We have no choice but dialogue,” Saleh said at a meeting of his General People’s Congress party in Sanaa on Tuesday...

  • Yemen's Houthis, Saleh's party accept UN peace terms, eye talks

    Former President Ali Abdullah Saleh's General People's Congress (GPC) party also accepted the plan...

    The Saudi-led coalition and exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi regard Saleh as a spoiler trying to undermine a political accord that allowed him to step down following months of protests in 2011...

  • Saudi-led warplanes bomb Saleh party HQ in Yemen capital

    SANAA: Saudi-led warplanes have bombed the Sanaa headquarters of the Yemeni party headed by former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is allied to Shiite Houthi insurgents, the party said on Monday...

    Saleh, who ruled for 33 years before being forced from power in 2012 after a bloody year-long uprising, threw the support of his loyalists in the army behind the Houthis...

  • Saleh aims to repeat his feat

    KARACHI: Former world No 2 Saleh Mohammad has said that he is looking forward to delivering his best in the third Jubilee Insurance World 6-Reds and Team Championships which begins here on Thursday...

    The 42-year-old Saleh is a household name in Paki­stan and before retu­r­n­ing to Afghanistan, he had won many laurels to the nation...

  • Saleh’s nephew resurfaces after six weeks

    CAIRO: The nephew of Yemen’s late President Ali Abdullah Saleh has surfaced in the country’s south, weeks after he disappeared amid violence in the capital, Sanaa...

    Brig Gen Tareq Mohammed Abdullah Saleh disappeared from Sanaa following the death of his uncle on Dec 4 amid intense fighting between forces loyal to the ousted president and Iranian-backed Shia rebels known as the Houthis...

  • Party of slain Saleh elects new chief

    SANAA: The political party of Yemen’s former pre­s­ident Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was killed in December by his erstwhile Houthi rebel allies, on Sunday named his replacement...

    Aburas, 65, is seen as having been close to Saleh, the long-time Yemeni strongman killed by Houthi gunmen on Dec 4 after their alliance collapsed...

  • Islamabad court orders release of PTI lawmaker Saleh Mohammad

    ISLAMABAD: Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Special Judge Raja Jawad Abbas Hassan on Tuesday ordered the release of PTI’s lawmaker Saleh Mohammad after accepting his post-arrest bail plea...

    Mr Saleh was arrested after a protest and firing incident outside the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) following the disqualification of PTI Chairman Imran Khan on October 21...

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