COVID-19: USCIRF feels 'troubled' by reports of Pakistan denying aid to Hindus and Christians
Apr 16, 2020, at 04:52 pm
Washington/IBNS: The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) recently expressed its concern over reports that "food aid being denied to the minority Hindus and Christians in Pakistan", specially at a time when the nation is witnessing an outbreak of COVID-19.
COVID-19: Positive cases in Pakistan touches 6,505 with 124 deaths
Apr 16, 2020, at 03:04 pm
Islamabad/UNI: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases have risen to 6,505 in Pakistan with 124 deaths, according to the data updated by the country's health ministry on Thursday morning.
Bangladesh reports biggest daily jump in COVID-19 cases
Apr 15, 2020, at 05:10 pm
Dhaka/Xinhua/UNI: Bangladesh recorded 219 new COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, the country's biggest daily increase since the detection of the first three cases on March 8.
Pakistan not in IMF Covid-19 relief list, Afghanistan among recipients
Apr 15, 2020, at 04:25 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: Pakistan PM Imran Khan received a jolt recently when despite demanding for a COVID-19 relief, he was denied so by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The South Asian country it seems is not among the nations where the international body extended its help.
COVID-19: Chaos in distribution centre in Pakistan leaves woman dead
Apr 14, 2020, at 07:44 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: Highlighting the poor condition of implementation of mechanism to combat COVID-19 in Pakistan, a septuagenarian woman waiting for cash handouts died outside a school in Multan region, media reports said.
COVID-19: Minority communities in Pakistan alleges discrimination by Imran Khan govt
Apr 14, 2020, at 07:41 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: Showing the troubles faced by minority communities in Pakistan at a time when the nation is dealing with COVID-19 outbreak, many people belonging to the Christian community have been removed from their jobs, leaving them to an uncertain future ahead.
India issues strong demarche to Pakistan over Kupwara ceasefire
Apr 14, 2020, at 07:36 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: India has issued a strong demarche to Pakistan over the killing of three Indian civilians, including a child, during unprovoked ceasefire violation from across the border in Jammu and Kashmir.
Apr 14, 2020, at 07:32 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: Failing to keep its promise, locals have claimed that the Pakistan government did not provide enough supply of essential commodities in the Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) during the lockdown implemented in the region to combat COVID-19 outbreak.
Pakistan secret agencies are backing criminals to target civilians in Balochistan, activists claim
Apr 14, 2020, at 07:28 pm
Quetta/Islamabad/IBNS: Apart from improper implementation of system by the government needed to contain COVID-19 outbreak in Pakistan, political activists are now alleging that the secret agencies are constituting criminal gangs and providing them weapons to target civilians and activists in Balochistan province.
Pakistan: Death toll due to COVID-19 touches 100 amid defiance by mosques
Apr 14, 2020, at 07:07 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: Amid reports of improper implementation of policies by PM Imran Khan-led government, mistreatment of doctors and defiance of many clerics running mosques, the number of deaths due to COVID-19 in Pakistan touched 100 on Tuesday.
Bangladesh: COVID-19 positive cases touch 1000 mark
Apr 14, 2020, at 04:48 pm
Dhaka/IBNS: Surging ahead with the progression of days, the number of COVID-19 cases in Bangladesh have touched 1000 mark.
Imran govt. slow in reacting to tackle Coronavirus pandemic: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Apr 14, 2020, at 12:59 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, a key politician in the country, on Tuesday attacked Pakistan PM Imran Khan-led government and said it was very slow in tackling the threat of coronavirus.
COVID-19: Supreme Court directs Imran Khan govt to remove PM's Advisor on Health Dr Zafar Mirza
Apr 13, 2020, at 08:08 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: In a major blow for PM Imran Khan-led Pakistan government, the country's Supreme Court on Monday expressed dissatisfaction over the performance of Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza in tackling the coronavirus outbreak, media reports in Pakistan said.
Hindu national forcefully converted to Islam in Karachi
Apr 13, 2020, at 07:16 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: When the world is busy fighting COVID-19 outbreak, radical Islamists in Pakistan continued to convert by force, the latest being a Hindu national in Karachi city.
Mujib killer Abdul Majed, who was hiding in Kolkata for 23 yrs, hanged, buried in Dhaka
Apr 13, 2020, at 01:07 pm
Dhaka/IBNS: Abdul Majed, the convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members, who was hiding in Kolkata in West Bengal for nearly 23 years, was hanged in Dhaka on Sunday. He was later buried at the family graveyard of his in-laws in Hosenpur under Sonargaon area in Narayanganj on the same day.
Apr 12, 2020, at 10:59 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: Amidst coronavirus epidemic, Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region appears to have been forgotten by the country's government after a prominent lawyer of Astore, one of the ten districts of the belt, exposed how the PM Imran Khan-led regime had forgotten the area and have declined to provide even the basic minimum essentials to its people.
Pakistan: 12 doctors test positive for COVID-19 in Multan hospital
Apr 12, 2020, at 07:47 pm
Multan/IBNS: Twelve doctors and nurses have tested positive for COVID-19 at Nishtar Medical Hospital in Pakistan's Multan area, media reports said.
Pakistan's economy may fall into recession due to COVID-19 break - World Bank
Apr 12, 2020, at 06:19 pm
Islamabad/Xinhua/UNI: Pakistan may fall into an economic recession owing to the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country, a World Bank report said on Sunday.
Afghanistan security forces kill shadow governor of Taliban
Apr 12, 2020, at 06:15 pm
Kabul/IBNS: Afghanistan security forces have killed the shadow governor of the Taliban group in central Maidan Wardak province of Afghanistan, media reports said.
Apr 12, 2020, at 04:26 pm
Gilgit/IBNS: Apart from alleged improper implementation of policies by the government at a time when the country is facing COVID-19 outbreak, reports are now emerging that Pakistani agencies are committing atrocities on the people of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Kabul Sikh Temple attack: Two close aides of mastermind Aslam Farooqui arrested
Apr 12, 2020, at 04:10 pm
Kabul: In yet another breakthrough in the gurudwara attack in Kabul city of Afghanistan, security forces in Afghanistan have arrested two aides of Islamic State Khorasan Province chief Aslam Farooqui.
Former Pakistan Minister Rehman Malik urges UN chief to probe COVID-19 origin
Apr 11, 2020, at 10:39 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: In a bid to find the origin of the disease, former interior minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Rehman Malik has urged the United Nations to form a high-powered commission to investigate whether Coronavirus, which has now hit almost all nations across the globe, is a man-made or a naturally grown virus, media reports said.
Apr 11, 2020, at 07:25 pm
Kabul/IBNS: The Afghanistan government has rejected Pakistan's request to extradite its citizen and terrorist Aslam Farooqi who was a mastermind of the attack on a gurudwara in Kabul city recently killing at least 25 Sikhs.
Death toll due to COVID-19 in Bangladesh touches 30
Apr 11, 2020, at 05:24 pm
Dhaka/IBNS: The death toll due to COVID-19 in Dhaka city has touched 30, media reports said.
COVID-19 positive cases reach 555 in Afghanistan
Apr 11, 2020, at 04:40 pm
Kabul/Xinhua: A total of 34 new positive cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Afghanistan over the past 24 hours bringing the number of the patients infected with the disease to 555, a spokesman of Public Health Ministry Wahid Majroh said Saturday.
Pakistan settling retired soldiers, labourers in PoK in bid to change demography: Report
Apr 11, 2020, at 01:50 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: In a bid to change the demography of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK), PM Imran Khan-led government is settling large numbers of retired Pakistani soldiers in that region, media reports said.
Explosion in Afghanistan's Kandahar Leaves 3 Civilians Killed, 2 Injured - Police Source
Apr 11, 2020, at 12:45 pm
Kabul/Sputnik/UNI: A bomb blast in the Spin Boldak district of Afghanistan's central province of Kandahar has left three civilians killed and two others injured, a source at the local police department told Sputnik on Friday.
Fight against COVID-19: Bangladesh govt enforces nationwide lockdown till Apr 25
Apr 10, 2020, at 04:58 pm
Dhaka: The Bangladesh government on Friday has enforced the nationwide lockdown till April 25 and said that the army will increase its patrol and resort to tough action against people not maintaining social distancing and violating home quarantine rules to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Pakistani lawmaker says COVID-19 lockdown in developing countries unlikely to succeed
Apr 10, 2020, at 02:56 pm
Moscow/Sputnik/UNI: Introducing a lockdown in Pakistan or any other developing country due to the coronavirus pandemic is unlikely to be effective since there are a lot of poor people there who will need to leave their homes to make a living, Saleem Mandviwalla, the deputy chairman of Pakistan's upper house, told Sputnik on Thursday.
COVID-19: Baloch National Movement condemns police action against protesting doctors in Pakistan
Apr 10, 2020, at 01:38 pm
Quetta/IBNS: The Baloch National Movement (BNM) on Friday condemned the police action against doctors who were protesting against lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) kits for health workers on the front lines fighting against COVID-19 outbreak in Pakistan.