Acute water shortage staring Pakistan in the face, warns Pakistani minister Sherry
May 18, 2022, at 10:06 pm
Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman on Monday said Pakistan will need to conserve water and reduce impact of climate change or else it will become a water scarcity-hit country by 2025.
Pakistan: Highway blocked in Balochistan to protest against arrest of two women
May 18, 2022, at 09:58 pm
turbat: Hundreds of women blocked a highway between Turbat and Hoshab as they demonstrated against the arrest of two women on Monday, media reports said.
Pakistan: Journalists continue demonstrations demanding release of colleague
May 18, 2022, at 09:50 pm
Bara: Journalists of three press clubs in Khyber district, political leaders and social activists recently demonstrated at the Khyber Chowk in Bara to demand the release of journalist Khadim Khan.
Pakistan: Pemra warns TV channels over airing content against state institutions
May 18, 2022, at 09:08 pm
Islamabad: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has issued a directive to satellite TV channels and asked them to refrain from telecasting content against state institutions.
Pakistan: FIR registered in killing of two Sikh men
May 18, 2022, at 09:01 pm
Islamabad: The counter-terrorism department (CTD) has filed First Information Report into the recent killing of two Sikh traders in Pakistan, media reports said on Wednesday.
Pakistan: Two suspects of Karachi Saddar blast killed during encounter with security forces
May 18, 2022, at 08:26 pm
Islamabad: Pakistan security forces have killed two suspected terrorists who were involved in the Karachi Saddar blast, media reports said on Wednesday.
Taliban authorities end Afghanistan's human rights commission
May 18, 2022, at 03:23 pm
Kabul: The Taliban administration of Afghanistan has dissolved five crucial departments of the former U.S.-backed government, including the country's Human Rights Commission, media reports said on Wednesday.
Taliban authorities end Afghanistan's human rights commission
May 18, 2022, at 03:21 pm
Kabul: The Taliban administration of Afghanistan has dissolved five crucial departments of the former U.S.-backed government, including the country's Human Rights Commission, media reports said on Wednesday.
Afghanistan: Taliban orders female UN staff to wear hijab
May 18, 2022, at 02:28 pm
Kabul: Afghanistan's Taliban rulers issued yet another bizarre diktat as they directed female staff members of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) to wear the hijab, media reports said.
Pakistan: Over 15,000 more schools needed for 4.7m out-of-school children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
May 18, 2022, at 06:02 am
Islamabad: Pakistan's Elementary and Secondary Education (E&SE) Department will require to establish 15,000 additional government schools for the enrolment of a total 4.7 million out-of-school children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
China Eastern jet crash was intentional: Reports suggest after black box data recovered
May 18, 2022, at 05:56 am
Flight data retrieved from a black box that was recovered from a China Eastern jet which crashed earlier this year indicates someone in the cockpit intentionally caused the disaster, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
Pakistan: People demonstrate over restoration of snapped internet service in Bajaur
May 18, 2022, at 05:51 am
Peshawar, Pakistan: Residents of Pakistan's Mamond tehsil region on Sunday staged demonstration demanding early restoration of the internet service, which has been suspended across most parts of Bajaur district for over two months due to security reasons, media reports said.
Chinese teachers at NED leave Pakistan after Karachi University suicide attack
May 18, 2022, at 05:44 am
Karachi, Pakistan: All the Chinese teachers at the NED University have left Pakistan following the terror attack in Karachi University last month.
POK's Kohala hydropower project: Chinese firm Sinosure reluctant to accord approval
May 18, 2022, at 05:18 am
Islamabad: China Export & Credit Insurance, Sinosure, is currently reluctant to accord approval to 1124-MW Kohala Hydropower Project in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK), a project of CPEC, media reports said.
Pakistan: SCA urges govt to declare Sindh as ‘calamity-hit’ due to water shortage
May 18, 2022, at 04:48 am
Quetta, Pakistan: The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA) in Pakistan has expressed deep concern over the acute water shortage faced by the area during the ongoing summer season.
Sri Lanka down to last day of petrol: PM Ranil Wickremesinghe
May 18, 2022, at 01:14 am
Colombo/UNI: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that his country is down to its last day of petrol as it faces its worst economic crisis in more than 70 years, BBC reported.
Pakistan: Karachi blast leaves one dead, several others hurt
May 17, 2022, at 02:54 pm
Karachi: At least one person died in a blast which rocked Pakistan's Karachi city on Monday, media reports said.
Uyghur secretary of Marxism Institute at university in China's Xinjiang detained: Reports
May 17, 2022, at 12:31 am
Xinjiang: About 20 Uyghur teachers from a university in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region, including the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) secretary of the school’s Marxism Institute, have been arrested, media reports said.
Man’s death in ‘staged’ encounter sparks demonstration in Pakistan
May 16, 2022, at 06:17 pm
Karachi, Pakistan: Placing the body of a man, who was allegedly killed in a staged encounter, on the road, his relatives demonstrated in front of the office of senior superintendent of police on Thursday night in Pakistan's Hyderabad, media reports said on Sunday.
Pakistan: Cholera breaks out in Pir Koh, protests erupt over demand for clean water
May 16, 2022, at 06:04 pm
Islamabad: Protest erupted in Dera Bugti district of Balochistan in Pakistan on Friday over the outbreak of cholera.
Pakistan's Sindh, South Punjab fume over water shortage
May 16, 2022, at 06:01 pm
Lahore, Pakistan: Tension is rising between two regions of Pakistan over sharing of the nation's water resources as serious water shortages coupled with a searing heatwave have sparked grave concerns in South Punjab and Sindh, media reports said on Sunday.
Two Sikh traders shot dead in Pakistan, community members protest
May 16, 2022, at 03:28 am
Peshawar: In another incident of violence against minorities in Pakistan, two Sikhs were shot dead by unidentified armed men in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on Sunday.
Imran Khan is a threat to state: Marriyum Aurangzeb
May 16, 2022, at 12:55 am
Islamabad: Pakistani Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb has said PTI chief Imran Khan is a threat to the state as he had continuously been making attempts to spread unrest and anarchy in the country.
Pakistan: Three security personnel killed in suicide attack
May 15, 2022, at 09:22 pm
Quetta: At least three Pakistani security personnel died in a suicide attack in the country's North Waziristan region, media reports said on Sunday.
Pakistan: Unidentified gunmen kill two Sikh community members in Peshawar
May 15, 2022, at 07:50 pm
Peshawar: Unidentified gunmen have killed two people of the Sikh community in Pakistan's Peshawar city, media reports said.
COVID-19: China tightens ban on 'non-essential' overseas travel
May 15, 2022, at 04:17 am
Beijing: China, which is witnessing a tough fight against COVID-19, has imposed a de facto international travel ban that forbids citizens from going overseas for "non-essential" reasons.
Afghanistan: RSF calls journalist Khalid Qaderi's trial as 'illegal and arbitrary'
May 15, 2022, at 04:05 am
Kabul: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns an Afghan journalist’s trial by a military court last weekend, as well as recent arbitrary and illegal arrests of other journalists in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan: Taliban implements gender segregation in restaurants across Herat
May 15, 2022, at 04:02 am
Herat, Afghanistan: Taliban rulers of Afghanistan have implemented a gender segregation plan in restaurants situated in Herat province.
Pakistan’s net external debt moves up to almost $5bn
May 15, 2022, at 04:00 am
Islamabad: Pakistan's economic challenge continues as the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MEA) on Thursday said the country made a net addition of USD 4.77 billion in the first half (July–December 2021) of the current fiscal year to its total external public debt of USD 90.6 billion, media reports said on Saturday.
IRSA says water shortage in Pakistan is worse than expected
May 15, 2022, at 03:54 am
Islamabad: Pakistan is battling an acute shortage of water for irrigation purposes amid the Kharif season which commenced on April 1 with the sowing of major crops, including cotton, sugarcane, rice and maize, media reports said on Saturday.