Aug 29, 2020, at 08:25 pm
Islamabad: Showing its poisonous teeth, the Pakistan establishment is slowly gripping the Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan region.
Aug 29, 2020, at 12:54 am
London: Baloch National Movement UK Zone President Hakeem Baloch flayed the Pakistan government over murder of Baloch youth Hayat Baloch and said his death shattered 'dreams'.
Bangladesh: Security officials arrest new JMB man
Aug 28, 2020, at 10:05 pm
Dhaka: The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Bangladesh officials arrested a suspected operative of new JMB, media reports said on Friday.
China conducting experiments of dangerous pathogens with Pakistan for past five years: The Klaxon
Aug 27, 2020, at 04:53 am
Islamabad/Beijing: A team of key Coronavirus scientists from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology have been conducting experiments of dangerous pathogens in “collaboration” with Pakistan, media reports said at a time when the world is struggling to deal with COVID-19 pandemic.
Aug 27, 2020, at 04:34 am
Islamabad: Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has filed a reference in court against former ambassador to Indonesia Major General (retd) Syed Mustafa Anwar for illegally selling the embassy building in Jakarta.
Bangladesh: Police recover bodies of woman, her son in Jamalpur, one detained
Aug 26, 2020, at 10:34 pm
Dhaka: Police have recovered the bodies of a woman and her son in Bangladesh's Jamalpur city, media reports said.
Afghan president slams Taliban for wasting opportunity for peace after deadly truck blast
Aug 26, 2020, at 04:09 pm
Kabul/Sputnik: Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday condemned the deadly suicide bomb blast at a military base in the country’s north on Tuesday, saying the Taliban were squandering a chance to rebuild peace.
Pakistan: PM Imran Khan lashes out at opposition for defeating two FATF-related bills in Senate
Aug 26, 2020, at 04:03 pm
Islamabad/UNI: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday lambasted his country's opposition for defeating two bills related to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in the Senate, accusing them of trying to sabotage his efforts to help Pakistan exit from the watchdog's 'grey list' for personal political interests.
Pakistan: 6-yr-old allegedly raped, murdered in Nowshera, social media users demand justice
Aug 26, 2020, at 05:00 am
Nowshera: A minor girl was allegedly raped and then brutally murdered in Pakistan's Nowshera city on Monday, triggering massive protest on the social media platforms.
Dam construction: Residents of PoK demonstrate against China, Pakistan in Muzaffarabad
Aug 26, 2020, at 03:40 am
Muzaffarabad: Protesting against the construction of dams in the area, people demonstrated against Pakistan and China in Muzaffarabad region of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK).
RAB arrests two men, including a Rohingya, with 1.3 million yaba pills
Aug 26, 2020, at 12:02 am
Dhaka: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel have arrested two men with 1.3 million pieces of banned yaba pills in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar area, media reports said.
Bangladesh: Local teenager allegedly rapes minor in Jamalpur
Aug 25, 2020, at 10:46 pm
Dhaka: A local teenager allegedly raped a five-year-old girl in Bangladesh capital Jamalpur, media reports said.
Bangladesh: Human trafficking kingpin arrested
Aug 25, 2020, at 09:41 pm
Dhaka: Bangladesh security officials have arrested an alleged human trafficker who smuggled a 14-year-old girl into India by promising her a job in Malaysia, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Actress injured in Kabul shooting
Aug 25, 2020, at 09:10 pm
Kabul: An Afghanistan actress, who is also an employee of the country's Interior Ministry, was injured in a shooting incident in Kabul city, media reports said.
Experts discuss emerging threat to the world order by Chinese Communist Party
Aug 25, 2020, at 05:49 pm
Scholars from different parts of the world gathered to discuss the emerging threat to the world order by the Chinese Communist Party in a webinar titled ‘Chinese Communist Party: An Existential Threat to Humanity and the Rules-based World Order’, organised by Usanas Foundation.
Pakistan bans Khatam-Ul-Ambia terror outfit
Aug 24, 2020, at 11:17 pm
Islamabad/UNI: The Pakistan government has decided to ban another militant outfit- Khatam-Ul-Ambia taking the number of outlawed organisations to 77.
Bangladesh: Mother, children beaten up on charges of cattle theft
Aug 24, 2020, at 10:47 pm
Dhaka/UNI: Five people, including a woman, her two daughters and one son, were beaten up in a village in Cox’s Bazar on charge of cattle lifting.
Bangladesh: NTV’s joint chief news editor Shahid dies due to coronavirus
Aug 24, 2020, at 04:09 am
Dhaka/UNI: Abdus Shahid joint chief news editor of Bangladesh private television channel NTV passed away after being infected with Covid-19 at a hospital in Dhaka on Sunday morning. He was 63.
Afghanistan: Key Taliban member arrested
Aug 24, 2020, at 12:11 am
Kabul: Afghanistan defence officials on Sunday confirmed a key Taliban member who used to lead an insurgency group in Shakardara district of Kabul city has been arrested.
PoK: Journalist tries to remove national flag from Dadyal, faces torture
Aug 23, 2020, at 05:39 pm
Islamabad: An activist-journalist was allegedly tortured by the country's agencies and security forces after he tried to remove Pakistan's flag from a popular public place in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK)'s Dadyal, media reports said.
Family members of converted Sikh girl Jagjit Kaur want to leave Pakistan
Aug 23, 2020, at 05:32 pm
Islamabad: With minority communities in dire straits, as many as nine family members of converted Sikh girl Jagjit Kaur from Nankana Sahib in Pakistan have written to authorities asking them to make a passport so that they could leave the south Asian nation.
Pakistan: European think tank flags human rights situation in Balochistan in latest report
Aug 23, 2020, at 05:25 pm
Brussels: The European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) has highlighted findings by the Pakistan Human Rights Commission (HRCP) where it stated that enforced disappearances and missing persons remain a major issue in the Balochistan region of the country.
China: Three Gorges dam hits highest level, anxiety grows among public
Aug 23, 2020, at 04:38 pm
Beijing: With COVID-19 virus cases still emerging from the country, China is bracing for another major challenge as extreme floods have hit Three Gorges dam in Hubei province.
Greece criticizes Turkey's decision to convert Chora museum into mosque
Aug 23, 2020, at 12:27 am
Athens/UNI: Greece has denounced Turkey's decision to convert the Chora museum, a former Byzantine Greek Orthodox church, into a mosque.
Pakistan: Imran Khan-govt orders compliance with UN curbs against Taliban
Aug 22, 2020, at 11:56 pm
Islamabad/UNI: The Pakistan government has issued ‘a statutory notification’ ordering compliance with the United Nations’ Security Council (UNSC) sanctions against Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani Network.
Xi Jinping writes to Pakistan president, talks of 'shared future'
Aug 22, 2020, at 10:33 pm
Beijing/UNI: President of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Xi Jinping has written a letter to Pakistan President Dr Arif Alvi in which he has talked about a “China-Pakistan Community of Shared Future”.
Bangladesh records 2,265 fresh COVID19 cases
Aug 22, 2020, at 10:19 pm
Dhaka: Bangladesh seems to witness a significant rise in the number of COVID-19 cases as the country recorded 2,265 fresh cases in the past 24 hours, media reports said on Sunday.
Three explosions rock Kabul city, one dead
Aug 22, 2020, at 10:17 pm
Kabul: Three explosions rocked Kabul city in Afghanistan on Saturday which left one security personnel killed and four others injured, media reports said.
Bangladesh: Road mishap in Mymensingh leaves six people, including child and women, dead
Aug 22, 2020, at 10:15 pm
Mymensingh: At least six people were killed as a bus hit a car in Bangladesh's Mymensingh city on Saturday, media reports said.
Aug 22, 2020, at 10:02 pm
New York: Three years after violence in Myanmar forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas to seek refuge in Bangladesh, the international community must adapt its assistance to the critical needs of those displaced and the host communities supporting them, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday.