Bangladesh government rejects Chinese COVID-19 trial
Oct 15, 2020, at 06:11 pm
Dhaka: The clinical trial in Bangladesh of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine developed by Sinovac Biotech has now become uncertain after the country's health ministry expressed unwillingness towards co-financing the initiative as requested by the Chinese drugmaker.
Pakistan: NAB to probe closure of Roosevelt Hotel
Oct 15, 2020, at 06:03 pm
Islamabad: Chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) retired Justice Javed Iqbal on Tuesday tasked its Rawalpindi bureau office to investigate the reports about the closure of Pakistan International Airlines’ (PIA’s) Roosevelt Hotel in US city of New York from Oct 31, Dawn News reported.
Pakistan is not a democracy but a stratocracy: Altaf Hussain
Oct 15, 2020, at 05:57 pm
Islamabad: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain has slammed Pakistan and said the nation is not a "democracy but a stratocracy".
Pakistan sees bloody protests ahead of Maryam Nawaz meeting in Punjab
Oct 15, 2020, at 05:53 pm
Islamabad: Issues are simply not dying down for Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan and his cabinet as the South Asian country continues to witness massive protests one after the other while scenes of blood-spattered women protesters rolling on the streets from police crackdown in the latest action triggering outrages.
Gilgit-Baltistan: Massive protest demands release of political prisoners
Oct 15, 2020, at 03:37 am
Quetta: Demanding release of political prisoners, a massive protest was held in Gilgit-Baltistan area of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) recently.
Maryam Nawaz challenges Pakistan PM Imran Khan, says the govt will go home before January
Oct 14, 2020, at 11:41 pm
Islamabad: Pakistani Muslim League (Nawaz) [PML(N)] vice president Maryam Nawaz has challenged PM Imran Khan and said his government will go home before January, a few days before the Opposition holds its first power show in a campaign aimed to oust the government.
Afghanistan: Blast hits Mehtarlam town leaves 2 killed
Oct 14, 2020, at 10:23 pm
Kabul: A magnetic bomb explosion on a police vehicle in Mehtarlam region of Afghanistan left two people killed, media reports said on Wednesday.
Thousands displaced by fighting in southern Afghanistan
Oct 14, 2020, at 10:21 pm
New York: Thousands of people have been displaced and critical health services interrupted, after fighting erupted on 11 October in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, the UN humanitarian office has reported.
Pakistan witnessing major rise in targeting religious minorities: Reports
Oct 14, 2020, at 06:07 pm
Islamabad: Pakistan is witnessing a major rise in the targeting of religious minorities under the draconian blasphemy law of the south Asian country, media reports said.
Oct 14, 2020, at 06:01 pm
Washington: Prime Minister Salih Hudayar on behalf of the East Turkistan Government in Exile has said the US should realise that the treatment being given to people of Xinjiang in China is nothing less than genocide and colonisation.
Oct 14, 2020, at 05:56 pm
Dhaka: While the invisible enemy Coronavirus slowed down the shuttle of the global economy, Bangladesh kept its growth rolling and accelerating amid the disaster owing to the timely plans spelled out by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, as claimed in a webinar of Awami League.
Bangladesh: Government calls for refrain from fake propaganda or action will be taken
Oct 14, 2020, at 03:36 pm
Dhaka/UNI: The Bangladesh government on Tuesday urged all concerned to refrain from spreading all kinds of false propaganda through social media to protect the image of the country.
Pakistan: Imran Khan’s key aide Lt Gen (Retd) Asim Saleem Bajwa resigns as SAPM on information
Oct 14, 2020, at 01:09 am
Islamabad: Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s key aide Lt Gen (Retd) Asim Saleem Bajwa, about whom an investigative report had alleged corruption scams, on Monday quit as Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Information and Broadcasting.
Terrorism: FATF's Asia Pacific Group keeps Pakistan on 'Enhanced Follow-up List'
Oct 14, 2020, at 12:56 am
Islamabad: Pakistan received a jolt as the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF's) Asia Pacific Group (APG) on Money Laundering has kept the country on "Enhanced Follow-up List" for its slow progress on the technical recommendations of the FATF to fight terror financing, media reports said.
Afghanistan: 10 Taliban fighters killed in their own roadside bomb
Oct 13, 2020, at 09:23 pm
Kandahar, Afghanistan/Xinhua: Ten Taliban militants were killed as their vehicle ran over a mine planted by the group in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province on Monday, Kandahar police spokesman Jamal Barikzai said Tuesday.
Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abdul Momen appointed chair of Commonwealth Ministerial Group on Guyana
Oct 13, 2020, at 09:14 pm
Dhaka/UNI: Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr Abdul Momen was unanimously appointed as the Chair of the Commonwealth Ministerial Group on Guyana.
Blast targeting police patrol team kills 1, wounds 5 in southern Afghanistan
Oct 13, 2020, at 09:07 pm
Kandahar/Xinhua: At least one police constable was killed and five others including four civilians were injured as a blast targeted a police patrol team in Kandahar city, the capital of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province on Tuesday, provincial police spokesman Jamal Barikzai said.
Sindhi community people demonstrate against Pakistan govt's decision to annex Sindh Islands
Oct 13, 2020, at 03:44 am
Karachi: Sindhi protesters have demonstrated outside the Sindh Governor House in Karachi city of Pakistan against the government's decision to annex the Sindh Islands against the will of the community.
FATF greylist: Pakistan 'hires' lobbyist firm for US bailout
Oct 13, 2020, at 03:25 am
Islamabad: Pakistan seems to have hired a lobbyist firm on the Capitol Hill to push a narrative favouring Islamabad with US President Donald Trump-led administration and get bailed out of the club of nations on the “grey list', just days ahead of the crucial Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meeting.
Bangladesh's cabinet gives nod to death penalty for rape
Oct 12, 2020, at 10:35 pm
Dhaka/Xinhua: The Bangladeshi government on Monday approved a proposal for stringent punishment for rapists.
Afghan forces carry out attack on Taliban in Helmand Province: Local authorities
Oct 12, 2020, at 02:56 pm
Kabul/Sputnik: The Afghan Air Force has successfully carried out an attack on a group of Taliban insurgents in the southern Helmand Province, capturing the Taliban’s local deputy governor, the Helmand Governor’s press office said in a statement.
PoK former 'PM' condemns Imran Khan govt's plan to merge Gilgit-Baltistan with Pakistan
Oct 12, 2020, at 05:17 am
Islamabad: Pakistan-occupied Kashmir former 'Prime Minister' Sardar Attique Khan has condemned PM Imran Khan for his plan to merge Gilgit Baltistan with Pakistan.
China aiming to exhaust Taiwan’s defence budget by repeated incursions: observers
Oct 12, 2020, at 04:42 am
Beijing: Observers believe that mainland China’s repeated military incursions into Taiwan’s air defence zone are meant to drain the island’s air force and establish the PLA as a regular presence in the area, media reports said.
British Parliament decides to debate atrocities against Uyghurs in China
Oct 12, 2020, at 04:39 am
London: The British Parliament has decided to debate on Monday the atrocities against Uyghur Muslims in China, media reports said.
Humla: Chinese security personnel fire tear gas shells towards Nepali team
Oct 12, 2020, at 04:19 am
Kathmandu: Chinese security personnel have allegedly fired tear gas at a Nepali team who had reached Namkha of Humla district to monitor the border pillar, pointing towards yet another Beijing's move of aggression towards neighbours, media reports said.
Nepal: Second cabinet minister tests positive for COVID-19
Oct 12, 2020, at 03:44 am
Kathmandu/UNI: Nepal's Minister for Education, Science and Technology Girirajmani Pokharel was tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the second cabinet minister to contract with coronavirus, his personal aide said on Sunday.
Bangladesh: Journo arrested for making 'defamatory remarks' against PM Sheikh Hasina
Oct 12, 2020, at 02:43 am
Dhaka/UNI: Detective Police (DB) has arrested a freelance journalist in Goalunda Upazila of Rajbari district in Bangladesh on the charge of making 'indecent remark about Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina'
Bangladesh: Chinese envoy expresses concern over non-repatriation of Rohingyas to Myanmar
Oct 12, 2020, at 02:41 am
Dhaka/UNI: Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming, on Sunday, expressed concern at the non repatriation process of Rohingyas to Myanmar.
Afghan forces kill 5 Taliban militants in northern Faryab Province
Oct 12, 2020, at 01:57 am
Kabul/Sputnik: Afghan military repelled an overnight Taliban attack on security posts in the northern Faryab province and killed five militants during the clash, Karim Yorash, a spokesman for the provincial police, told Sputnik on Sunday.
Pakistan: Unknown gunmen kill Balochi language singer Hanif Chamrok
Oct 11, 2020, at 11:03 pm
Unknown gunmen recently shot dead Balochi language singer Hanif Chamrok in Pakistan's Turbat city.