Amid massive Covid surge, China to stop reporting daily infection figures
Dec 25, 2022, at 07:23 pm
China's National Health Commission will stop releasing daily COVID-19 case figures for the country from Sunday, Reuters reported.
Pakistan: Bodies of three kidnapped members of a family recovered
Dec 24, 2022, at 10:40 pm
Karachi: Bodies of three people, who were kidnapped a day earlier, have been recovered from Pakistan's South Waziristan on Saturday, media reports said.
Pakistan: Flour price hits record high of Rs 2500 per 20kg in Karachi
Dec 24, 2022, at 10:36 pm
Karachi: Flour prices in Pakistan's Karachi city have spiked to Rs 2500 per 20-kilogramme bag against last week’s Rs2,400, media reports said on Saturday.
Pakistan: CTD arrests seven suspected terrorists
Dec 24, 2022, at 09:35 pm
Islamabad: The Punjab Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Saturday arrested seven suspected terrorists during an intelligence-based operation, media reports said on Saturday.
Suspension of women’s education in Afghanistan is against Islamic values: Prominent Islamic Scholar
Dec 24, 2022, at 09:31 pm
Kabul: Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed El-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of al-Azhar University, has described the recent decision taken by the Taliban government in Afghanistan to ban women from studying in universities as against Islamic principles.
Dec 24, 2022, at 03:09 pm
Quetta: Political activists and students demonstrated in the Pakistani city of Quetta against the Taliban-led Afghan government’s decision to impose a ban on women’s university education.
China estimated to have reported 37 million Covid-19 cases in a single day this week: Report
Dec 24, 2022, at 03:26 am
Beijing: China may have registered 37 million coronavirus cases in this week, making it the highest daily recorded so far, Bloomberg reported citing an estimate from the government's top health authority.
Imran Khan's ex-wife Reham Khan, a British Pakistani journalist, marries again
Dec 23, 2022, at 10:56 pm
London: British-Pakistani journalist Reham Khan, who is the former wife of ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan, on Friday announced she has got married.
Afghanistan reaffirms commitment to combating cross-border terrorism, says Pakistan
Dec 23, 2022, at 09:37 pm
Kabul: The current Afghan government has reaffirmed its commitments to Pakistan in terms of security and fight against cross-border terrorism, Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said on Thursday.
Pakistan: Islamabad suicide attack leaves one policeman dead
Dec 23, 2022, at 09:33 pm
Islamabad: At least one policeman died and six others, including two cops, were hurt as a suicide blast rocked Islamabad’s I-10/4 sector on Friday, media reports said.
Pakistan: One policeman killed, six others injured in suicide blast in Islamabad
Dec 23, 2022, at 07:29 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: One policeman was killed and at least six people were injured in a suicide blast in Pakistan's capital city Islamabad on Friday, police officials said.
Afghanistan: Kabul witnesses protest as Taliban bans women from attending universities
Dec 23, 2022, at 02:57 pm
Kabul: Thousands of women participated in Kabul city of Afghanistan on Thursday over the Taliban administration's decision to ban female students from attending universities.
Pakistan: Enraged people in Karachi lynch suspected robber as crime continues to spike
Dec 23, 2022, at 01:10 am
Karachi: Enraged people in Pakistan's Karachi city recently took law and order in their own hands and lynched a suspect on Monday, who shot a young man over resistance in the same Korangi area where a law student was killed one day ago for putting up resistance to bike snatchers.
Pakistan: Suicide blast rocks Miranshah, soldier dies
Dec 23, 2022, at 12:58 am
North Waziristan, Pakistan: A suicide blast occurred in North Waziristan in Miranshah town in Pakistan which left at least a soldier and two civilians dead, media reports said on Wednesday.
Pakistan’s poverty rate spikes by 35.7%
Dec 23, 2022, at 12:54 am
Islamabad: The poverty rate in Pakistan has spiked by 35.7 percent and the prices of edibles have increased by 20 to 31 percent, as per a Pakistani media report.
Dec 22, 2022, at 01:23 am
Kabul: Afghan authorities have stopped letting female students attend universities following the decision of the Taliban (sanctioned by the UN for terrorism) to suspend higher education for women in the country, a female Afghan student told Sputnik on Wednesday.
Pakistan: Militants storm Wana police station, escape with arms
Dec 21, 2022, at 10:59 pm
South Waziristan: Dozens of terrorists entered a police station in Pakistan's Wana town on Tuesday and escaped after looting arms and ammunition, media reports said on Wednesday.
Dec 21, 2022, at 08:58 pm
United Nations: Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari appealed to the international community to maintain the flow of aid to help the South Asian nation's recovery from floods that ravaged the country ahead of a United Nations conference next month to mobilize funding, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Taliban bans women from attending universities
Dec 21, 2022, at 03:04 pm
Kabul: The Taliban administrators of Afghanistan have banned women from going to universities.
No compromise in engagement with world: Taliban Minister of Afghanistan
Dec 21, 2022, at 12:56 am
Kabul: Taliban Acting Minister of Vice and Virtue, Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, on Sunday, said the Afghanistan government is ready to engage with the international community, but the world should not seek any compromise with the caretaker government.
Pakistan: Three people gunned down in North Waziristan
Dec 21, 2022, at 12:07 am
North Waziristan: At least three people were killed as a car caught fire after unidentified gunmen attacked the vehicle in Pakistan's Khadri area on Friday,media reports said.
TTP attacking Pakistan from within its territory: Pakistan Taliban chief Noor Wali Mehsud
Dec 21, 2022, at 12:02 am
Islamabad: Pakistani Taliban leader Noor Wali Mehsud has said the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is attacking Pakistan from “within its territory”.
Terrorists holed up in Bannu CTD compound killed, says Pakistan security forces
Dec 20, 2022, at 11:55 pm
Islamabad: Security forces have wrapped up their 'search and kill' operation after gunning down the terrorists holding hostages inside the Counter-Terrorism Department’s (CTD) compound in Pakistan's Bannu region, media reports said.
Pakistan: IB sub-inspector gunned down in Peshawar
Dec 20, 2022, at 11:50 pm
Islamabad: A Sub-Inspector of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) died when gunmen opened fire on him in Pakistan's Peshawar city on Monday, media reports said on Tuesday.
Pakistan: 13 injured as blast rocks Balochistan
Dec 20, 2022, at 02:42 pm
Quetta: A blast in Balochistan's Khuzdar city on Monday left 13 people injured, media reports said on Tuesday.
Dec 19, 2022, at 11:03 pm
Chongqing: Authorities in the Chinese city of Chongqing have said public sector employees testing positive for Covid-19 can go to work “as normal".
Pakistani agents robbing Afghanistan's cultural heritage: Reports
Dec 19, 2022, at 10:55 pm
Kabul: Pakistani agents are robbing the cultural heritage of Afghanistan by smuggling ancient idols and other artifacts from the nation which is currently ruled by the Taliban, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Salang tunnel fire leaves 19 people dead
Dec 19, 2022, at 03:23 pm
Kabul: At least 19 people died and 30 others were hurt as a fire broke out at a tunnel in Afghanistan's Salang Pass, media reports said on Monday.
Bangladesh: PM Sheikh Hasina says removing Awami League from power is not an easy task
Dec 19, 2022, at 06:19 am
Dhaka: Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina has said removing her Awami League from power is not an easy task.
Pakistan: Relatives of those hurt in Dec 14 suicide attack participate in protest demonstration
Dec 19, 2022, at 05:12 am
North Waziristan: Relatives of those people who were injured in Dec 14 suicide attack held a protest demonstration outside Miramshah Press Club in Pakistan on Friday, media reports said.