Pakistan: 600 teachers in Muzaffargarh not getting salaries for two years

Oct 24, 2022, at 03:46 am

Muzaffargarh: More than 600 women teachers of the Basic Education Community Schools (BECS) and the National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) schools in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district have been denied their salaries for the past two years, media reports said.

United Kashmir People’s National Party demonstrates across different cities on 'Black Day'

Oct 24, 2022, at 02:41 am

London: United Kashmir People’s National Party (UKPNP) on Saturday demonstrated in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and different parts of the world on what is observed as a 'Black Day’ to remember the Pakistani invasion of the region in 1947.

Pakistan needs to take internal steps for economic recovery: Martin Raiser

Oct 23, 2022, at 10:38 pm

Islamabad: Pakistan will have to take internal measures along with help from the international community by implementing economic reforms to recover from the cataclysmic floods, World Bank Vice President for South Asia Martin Raiser said.

UK govt sued over forced labour import from China's Xinjiang

Oct 23, 2022, at 07:24 pm

London: A rights group has claimed in its report that Britain’s government will appear in court at the end of October to answer charges it has failed to block products made with forced labor in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang from entering the UK.

China using influencers to whitewash human rights abuses, claims report

Oct 23, 2022, at 07:21 pm

Beijing: The Chinese government is attempting to use social media influencers from the Xinjiang region, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia to whitewash human rights abuses through an increasingly sophisticated propaganda campaign, claims a report.

COVID-19 concern: Chinese stocks tumble to multi-year lows in New York and Hong Kong

Oct 23, 2022, at 07:01 pm

Hong Kong: China's growing struggle with COVID-19 is evident in the market as the country's stocks have hit multi-year lows in New York and Hong Kong, media reports said on Saturday.

China Communist Party Congress: Xi Jinping secures third term in power in closed-door voting

Oct 23, 2022, at 04:47 pm

Chinese President Xi Jinping secured a third term in a closed-door vote on Sunday after a week-long gathering in Beijing of the selected members of the Communist Party of China or CPC, media reports said.

Explosion targets military ambulance in Yemen, 5 killed

Oct 23, 2022, at 04:06 pm

Aden, Yemen/UNI: An explosion struck an ambulance carrying a medic team of the southern pro-government Yemeni forces in southern Abyan province, killing five medics on board, a security official told Xinhua.

Eleven women enter China's newly formed central committee

Oct 23, 2022, at 06:28 am

Beijing: Only 11 women have secured seats in the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), according to the official list of newly-appointed members.

China: Ex-leader Hu Jintao left out of Congress ceremony

Oct 23, 2022, at 01:39 am

Beijing: Chinese former leader Hu Jintao has been left out of the closing ceremony of the Communist Party Congress, media reports said.

Afghanistan: Mortar shell explosion leaves two children dead

Oct 23, 2022, at 01:32 am

Kabul: An unexploded mortar shell exploded in Paktika region of Afghanistan which left at least two children dead, media reports said.

Pakistan: Policeman killed in Dera attack

Oct 23, 2022, at 12:24 am

Dera Ismail Khan: Unidentified assailants have opened fire and killed a police constable in Prova police station limits in Dera Ismail Khan region of Pakistan, media reports said on Saturday.

Pakistan: Mob attacks Orangi Town police station, SSP's office

Oct 23, 2022, at 12:21 am

A mob of around 200 people attacked the Orangi Town police station and nearby West SSP’s office in Pakistan on Thursday which left one policeman injured, media reports said.

Pakistan: Army bans Pashto language in Army Public Schools

Oct 23, 2022, at 12:15 am

Islamabad: A recent crackdown on Pakistan's largest ethnic minorities became evident when the Pakistan Army banned Pashto in its Army Public Schools, media reports said on Saturday.

Afghanistan: Body of young girl with bullet wound recovered

Oct 23, 2022, at 12:06 am

Kabul: The lifeless body of a young girl was recovered from Pol-e-Khomri city in Afghanistan with a gunshot wound, media reports said on Saturday.

19 killed, 36,000 displaced in Sudan land ownership dispute: UN

Oct 22, 2022, at 09:13 pm

New York/IBNS: Inter-communal violence in Sudan following a land ownership dispute has claimed at least 19 lives, a United Nations (UN) spokesman said.

Singing sensation Yohani joins Sri Lanka tourism to woo Indian filmmakers

Oct 22, 2022, at 08:51 pm

Mumbai/Colombo/Bangalore: Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB), together with Sri Lankan Airlines and the International Film Producers’ Association of Sri Lanka (IFPA), recently organized a Film Tourism Promotional campaign in Bangalore and Mumbai to target major Indian movie industries by promoting Sri Lanka as "the ideal film location destination in South Asia".

Ukraine war: Path of further escalation ‘must be reversed’, Security Council hears

Oct 22, 2022, at 07:35 pm

New York: Russia’s military escalation in Ukraine will lead to more suffering worldwide and must be reversed, said the UN’s political affairs chief on Friday, adding that further talk of possible nuclear weapons use could lead to a “dangerous spiral”.

Millions at risk in flood-hit Nigeria; relief chief highlights hunger in Burkina Faso

Oct 22, 2022, at 07:26 pm

New York: More than 2.8 million people have been impacted by Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade, with 1.3 million displaced and hundreds of lives lost, said the UN chief on Friday, expressing his sadness at the devastation.

Security Council approves sanctions package for Haiti to quell gang violence

Oct 22, 2022, at 07:20 pm

New York: The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously approved a sanctions regime for Haiti, targeting gang leaders and those who finance them, in the hope of easing months of violence and lawlessness which has fuelled a major humanitarian crisis.

Pakistan security forces, Taliban armed forces clash along Spin Boldak, woman dies

Oct 22, 2022, at 07:15 pm

Kandahar, Afghanistan: Pakistani border security forces and Taliban armed forces clashed along the border in the Spin Boldak border town in Kandahar province of southern Afghanistan when an Afghan woman died during the skirmish, media reports said.

Afghanistan: Large number of farmers now depend on opium cultivation for survival, says SIGAR

Oct 22, 2022, at 07:11 pm

Kabul: The struggle of people in Afghanistan is becoming more intense and even forcing farmers in the country to depend on opium poppies cultivation for their livelihood.

Tension with US over oil: Pakistan decides to side Saudi Arabia

Oct 22, 2022, at 05:47 am

Islamabad: Pakistan has decided to take the side of Saudi Arabia at a time when the Middle East nation has locked horns with the United States over the cut in oil supply in the international market.

Pakistan: Imran Khan says female journalist bound to be harassed if she invades male space

Oct 22, 2022, at 05:40 am

Islamabad: Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan recently landed himself in a controversy when he issued an inappropriate statement against a leading female journalist, implying that she was asking to be trolled and harassed as she “invades male-dominated spaces” while covering political rallies, media reports said.

China continues to tighten grip over Tibet

Oct 22, 2022, at 05:31 am

Lhasa: China has started reinforcing tight control over the highly surveilled Tibet autonomous region and the authorities continue to increase its repression in the name of the Zero-Covid policy, media reports said.

China’s economy badly hit by Covid lockdowns: Reports

Oct 22, 2022, at 05:24 am

Beijing: China's economic indicators are not looking very positive as the country is badly hit by COVID-19 imposed lockdowns which is affecting both businesses and consumers.

Canada freezes sales, purchase, transfer of handguns

Oct 22, 2022, at 04:43 am

Toronto/IBNS: Canadian federal government’s promise to freeze the national sale, purchase, and transfer of handguns takes effect Friday.

Boris Johnson asks Rishi Sunak to step down in race for UK PM after Liz Truss resignation: Reports

Oct 22, 2022, at 03:51 am

London/IBNS: Rishi Sunak is currently the frontrunner to become the next UK Prime Minister, but Boris Johnson has urged him to stand down and let him take over the country's top post to replace Liz Struss, reports in British media say.

Pakistan removed from anti-terror watchdog FATF's grey list after 4 yrs

Oct 22, 2022, at 03:40 am

Pakistan has made its way out of the FATF grey list, four years after the global watchdog on terror financing and money laundering put the country under the organisation's close scrutiny for involvement in terror funding.

The politics driving China's hellish lockdowns

Oct 22, 2022, at 12:05 am

Beijing: The world has largely moved on from Covid -- except for China, where towns and cities are still shut down overnight.