China's growing use of military drones is putting regional stability 'at risk'
Sep 14, 2021, at 04:43 pm
Beijing: Regional stability seems to be at risk as China is using unmanned aircraft capabilities and focusing on increasingly sophisticated military drones, media reports said.
Satellite images show thousands of Afghans stranded at Pak border: Reports
Sep 14, 2021, at 04:33 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Amid reports of desperate Afghans trying to leave their country after Kabul takeover, satellite images exclusive to NDTV channel show thousands stranded at Afghanistan's border with Pakistan.
Afghanistan: UN High Commissioner for Refugees arrives in Kabul to assess humanitarian needs
Sep 13, 2021, at 10:47 pm
Moscow/UNI/Sputnik: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi announced on Monday that he arrived in the Afghan capital of Kabul to assess Afghanistan's humanitarian needs.
Afghanistan: Taliban to remove subjects contradicting Sharia Law from university curriculum
Sep 13, 2021, at 10:36 pm
Moscow/UNI/Sputnik: The Taliban's Ministry of Higher Education announced that it will remove subjects considered as running counter to the Islam's Sharia law from the curriculum of Afghanistan's universities.
Afghanistan: First Pakistan International Airlines flight lands Kabul
Sep 13, 2021, at 09:34 pm
Islamabad/Kabul: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane from Islamabad reached Kabul airport on Monday, the first commercial flight to reach the city since Taliban overran it in August.
Pakistan: Women prisoners in Peshawar jail suffering due to lack of separate prison
Sep 13, 2021, at 05:59 am
Peshawar: Women prisoners in Pakistan's Peshawar are facing a new challenge as they do not have a separate prison ever since the demolition of a British era building.
Pakistan: Assets of key opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif’s daughter, son attached
Sep 13, 2021, at 05:56 am
Lahore: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) informed an accountability court in Pakistan on Saturday that properties owned by the Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif’s daughter Rabia and son-in-law Imran Ali Yousaf have been attached as they are absconders.
Marriyum Aurangzeb slams PTI, calls EVMs ‘election fraud machines’
Sep 13, 2021, at 05:53 am
Islamabad: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Information Secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb has attacked the use of EVM in polls and said the federal ministers are attempting to trample upon Pakistan’s constitution to rob the next voting through the ‘election fraud machines’.
'Barbaric' video shows Afghanistan Taliban insurgents rejoicing with severed head of soldier
Sep 13, 2021, at 05:40 am
Kabul: A barbaric video has emerged where Taliban insurgents could be seen celebrating with the severed head of an Afghan soldier.
Chinese Threat: Japan, Vietnam sign defence transfer deal
Sep 13, 2021, at 05:28 am
Tokyo: Japan and Vietnam have signed a defence transfer deal amid worries about China's growing military influence in the region.
China may become greater threat for UK: Duncan Smith
Sep 13, 2021, at 04:19 am
London: British politician Duncan Smith has said China will become a greater threat for the UK and the West in the upcoming days.
No sign of banned Uyghur outfit in Afghanistan: Taliban tells China
Sep 13, 2021, at 03:51 am
Taliban insurgents have told China that the shadowy Uyghur Islamic group that Beijing has used as justification for increasingly harsh rule over the Muslim ethnic minority in its far-western Xinjiang region is not present in Afghanistan and won’t be allowed to return.
Germany: Afghanis demonstrate against Taliban in Hamburg
Sep 13, 2021, at 03:33 am
Hamburg: Hundreds of Afghanistanis, who are currently living in Germany, demonstrated in Hamburg city against the Taliban group which captured Afghanistan last month.
China: Toshiba to shut down its plant in Dalian
Sep 13, 2021, at 03:17 am
Tokyo: Japanese technology giant Toshiba will shut its plant in the Chinese city of Dalian at the end of the month.
Afghan embassy in Rome marks 20th death anniversary of guerrilla commander Massoud with symposium
Sep 13, 2021, at 03:10 am
Rome: A high-level symposium was recently hosted in Rome to mark the 20th death anniversary of Afghanistan’s guerrilla commander Ahmed Shah Massoud. The event was hosted on Friday by the Embassy of Afghanistan.
Xi Jinping has not moved outside China for past 600 days
Sep 13, 2021, at 02:59 am
Beijing: China's President Xi Jinping has not left his nation for the past 600 days and experts believe it might further hamper the relationship with Western countries, according to a Bloomberg report.
Afghanistan: Female doctor in Kandahar says Taliban insurgents hit her
Sep 13, 2021, at 01:37 am
Kandahar: A female doctor has claimed she was beaten up by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's Kandahar region, media reports said.
Schools reopen in Bangladesh after 543 days break due to COVID-19
Sep 13, 2021, at 12:53 am
Dhaka: Ending a long break of 543 days amid COVID-19 outbreak, schools reopened in Bangladesh on Sunday as students returned to classrooms to take their lessons.
Afghan pilots in Uzbekistan to get flown to US base in Doha: Reports
Sep 12, 2021, at 02:30 pm
Washington/UNI/Sputnik: A group of Afghan pilots are expected to be transferred to a US military base from Uzbekistan this weekend, under a new agreement between the US and Uzbek governments, The Wall Street Journal reported citing people familiar with the matter.
CIA-trained Afghan collaborators receive death threats from Taliban: Reports
Sep 12, 2021, at 04:28 am
Washington/UNI/Sputnik: Members of the Afghan special forces' elite group trained by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who helped the US evacuation operation in Kabul received death threats from the Taliban (banned in Russia), The Washington Post reported, citing US officials familiar with the matter.
Fire at South African thermal power plant near Johannesburg : Operator
Sep 12, 2021, at 04:15 am
Pretoria/UNI/SPUTNIK: A fire has occurred at a large thermal power plant near the city of Johannesburg in South Africa, the Eskom energy company, the plant’s owner and operator, said on Saturday.
Afghanistan: The Taliban invasion, role of Pakistan and how it affects India
Sep 11, 2021, at 10:44 pm
Who is responsible for the current conundrum in Afghanistan? How are the regional stakeholders going to react and get affected by the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul? What impact will the ruinous US withdrawal have on its international standing? What role does Pakistan play in the Afghanistan fiasco and how does it use it to get back at India?
Pakistan to resume commercial flights to Afghanistan's Kabul on Monday
Sep 11, 2021, at 10:37 pm
Islamabad/UNI/Xinhua: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has decided to resume commercial flights to Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, starting from Sept. 13, the airline said on Saturday.
Pakistan: Armed men attack Frontier Corps South members convoy, 2 soldiers die
Sep 11, 2021, at 10:34 pm
Gwadar: Two Pakistan's Frontier Corps South members died and another was hurt as armed men attacked their convoy in the Buleda area of Kech district on Thursday, media reports said.
Taliban response to protests increasingly violent, warns OHCHR
Sep 11, 2021, at 09:48 pm
New York: Peaceful protesters in many parts of Afghanistan have been met with an increasingly violent response by the new Taliban authorities over the past four weeks, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Friday, including the use of live ammunition, batons and whips.
Banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan fields candidates in cantonment board polls
Sep 11, 2021, at 05:51 pm
Islamabad: Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), the Islamist group banned by the Pakistan government several months ago, has now fielded 84 candidates in 17 of the 41 cantonments where polling will be held on Sunday to elect general members of the cantonment board, media reports said.
Afghanistan: UN slams Taliban for its 'increasingly violent response' to protests
Sep 11, 2021, at 03:10 pm
Kabul: The United Nations on Friday slammed Taliban group for its 'increasingly violent response' to protests ever since it took control over Afghanistan on Aug 15 after entering Kabul.
China: Gas explosion leaves 8 dead
Sep 11, 2021, at 02:39 pm
Beijing: At least eight people died due to an explosion and fire caused by liquefied gas cylinder leakage in China's Liaoning Province on Saturday, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Women seek right to return to govt jobs
Sep 11, 2021, at 02:29 pm
Kabul/UNI: Despite their willingness to work, women in government jobs in Afghanistan say they have been prevented by the Taliban from returning to work.
President Xi Jinping's CCP policy to culturally unite China now reaches Inner Mongolia
Sep 11, 2021, at 02:19 am
Beijing: Xi Jinping's plan to culturally unify the entire country as per the political agenda of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has now reached Inner Mongolia.