JUI-F chief named Prez of Pakistan opposition alliance
Oct 05, 2020, at 02:34 am
Islamabad/UNI: Maulana Fazlur Rahman, the head of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-Fazl) party, has been named the first President of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), after unanimous nomination by the heads of all constituent parties. .
Pakistani PM Imran Khan urges public to avoid another wave of COVID-19
Oct 05, 2020, at 02:30 am
Islamabad/Xinhua: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday urged the public to take precautionary measures to avoid another wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina expects speedy recovery of Donald Trump, his wife
Oct 05, 2020, at 02:25 am
Dhaka/UNI: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday wished for early recovery of US President Donald J. Trump and his wife Melania Trump from coronavirus.
Afghanistan: Taliban attack leaves four civilians killed
Oct 04, 2020, at 11:12 pm
Kabul: An attack carried out by Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan's Kapsia region has left four civilians killed, media reports said.
Afghanistan: 2 government employees shot dead in Kabul
Oct 04, 2020, at 10:24 pm
Kabul: At least two government employees were shot dead in Afghanistan's Kabul city on Sunday, media reports said.
China: Six killed,10 injured in car accident
Oct 04, 2020, at 09:08 pm
Beijing/UNI: At least six people were killed and 10 injured on Sunday in a road accident in northeast China's Jilin Province, according to local public security authorities.
Refugee campfire: Greek authorities keeping a close eye on Pakistani-Afghanistan migrants
Oct 04, 2020, at 08:29 pm
Athens: The Greece government is monitoring the activities of migrants from Pakistan and Afghanistan after the burning of a refugee camp at Moria on Lesbos island by migrants from these two countries, media reports said.
Oct 04, 2020, at 08:18 pm
Geneva: Munir Mengal, the President of Baloch Voice Association, has targeted Pakistan and said Islamabad has opted for a strategic policy of colonialism and structural discrimination in Balochistan.
China is threatening global economy, health by exploiting natural resources: US Report
Oct 04, 2020, at 08:00 pm
Washington: China is threatening the global economy and global health by unsustainably exploiting natural resources and exporting its willful disregard for the environment through its One Belt One Road initiative, the US State Department said.
Japan: Tokyo witnesses demonstration against Chinese atrocities
Oct 04, 2020, at 06:31 pm
Tokyo: Nearly 3,000 people, including the Tibetans, Uighurs, Mongolians, Hong Kongers and Taiwanese, protested against atrocities and human rights violations by China by marching from different parts of Tokyo on Saturday.
Car bomb explosion occurs in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province
Oct 04, 2020, at 02:01 pm
Kabul/Sputnik: A car bomb has exploded at an Afghan National Army (ANA) base in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar Province, a military spokesman said on Sunday.
Working tirelessly against pandemic: Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina
Oct 04, 2020, at 04:51 am
Dhaka/UNI: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said her government has been tirelessly working to face the Covid-19 pandemic and keep running the country’s economy.
Beijing hands Nepal list of 188 products it wants to import, ignoring Kathmandu's list
Oct 03, 2020, at 10:01 pm
Kathmandu: Showing yet another point of contention between Kathmandu and Beijing, despite receiving repeated assurance from the Chinese authorities, Nepali goods have been facing hurdles when it comes to exporting them to China via land routes for the past few years, media reports said.
Oct 03, 2020, at 06:40 pm
HongKong/IBNS: Pro-democracy protesters of Hong Kong seem to have found inspiration in India's strong resistance to China's unprovoked aggression as they wrapped themselves in the tricolour and marched on China's National Day in Causeway Bay on Thursday.
Tokyo: Protesters demonstrate against China's human rights violations
Oct 03, 2020, at 05:19 am
Tokyo: Representatives from Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan, Mongolia and Japan demonstrated outside the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo on Thursday.
Hong Kong's last British Governor Chris Patten slams China, says Beijing cannot be trusted
Oct 03, 2020, at 04:57 am
London: Hong Kong's last British Governor Chris Patten has slammed China and said the country cannot be trusted.
False accusation and politicians: Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman slams Pakistan PM Imran Khan
Oct 03, 2020, at 04:46 am
Islamabad: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam president Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman has targeted Pakistan PM Imran Khan and said his government is framing politicians under false accusations.
Speak against Pakistan’s atrocities and oppression in Balochistan: Activist
Oct 03, 2020, at 04:39 am
London: Human rights activist Riaz Baloch has appealed to the world to react against the atrocities committed against the people of Balochistan by Pakistan.
Pakistan: Hindu girl commits suicide after being blackmailed by rapists
Oct 03, 2020, at 04:35 am
Islamabad: In yet another instance of atrocity committed on the Hindu community in Pakistan, a teenaged girl was forced to commit suicide after she was allegedly blackmailed by the suspects whom her family had accused of sexually assaulting her.
Rights defenders, scholars unite to launch 'Global Campaign for Democratic China’
Oct 03, 2020, at 04:06 am
In a first of its kind, human rights defenders, scholars, and persecuted communities by China came together to launch the ‘Global Campaign for Democratic China’ on China Day.
Bangladesh: PMO to review plans, costs of three China-funded rail projects
Oct 02, 2020, at 02:52 pm
Dhaka: The Bangladesh Prime Minister's Office has constituted a committee to review negotiated contract costs of three railways projects, which are supposed to be implemented with Chinese finance and by Chinese companies, and whether the projects should go ahead as they have been planned, media reports said,
Pakistani opposition parties are persecuted and punished: Activist Sajjad Raja
Oct 02, 2020, at 04:19 am
Islamabad: Gilgit-Baltistan leader and activist Sajjad Raja has targeted the Pakistani government and said it is only busy “persecuting the opposition leaders”.
Imran Khan govt to push for ex-PM Nawaz Sharif's deportation from UK
Oct 02, 2020, at 04:02 am
Islamabad: The Pakistani government has tasked relevant authorities with bringing back Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo leader Nawaz Sharif from London, media reports said.
Sep 30, 2020, at 11:01 pm
Amsterdam: The European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS) hosted a well-attended webinar titled, ‘Rise of ISIS in South Asia’, on the sidelines of the 45th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
India slams Pakistan over its treatment towards minorities
Sep 30, 2020, at 05:57 pm
Geneva: At UNHRC, India on Monday slammed Pakistan by stating that Pakistan is known as the “killing field” for the minorities.
Pakistan media bodies target Imran Khan govt, condemns ‘systematic war’ against press
Sep 30, 2020, at 04:55 am
Islamabad: Expressing their strong opinion against Prime Minister Imran Khan's regime, the country's journalist fraternity on Sunday issued a declaration expressing serious concern over torture, abduction and arrest of mediapersons, unannounced censorship through financial curbs on media houses, threats to owners and journalists by anti-media forces to compel them to toe the official line or face government’s wrath.
Amid Xinjiang crisis, Chinese authorities are now targeting tiny Muslim community in Hainan province
Sep 30, 2020, at 04:42 am
Beijing: The Chinese government's religious crackdown on a minor community has now reached Sanya city in Hainan province, located almost 12,000 km from the controversial Xinjiang region where the atrocities on the Uyghur Muslims have already earned global attention.
Afghanistan: 11 civilians killed in bomb blast
Sep 29, 2020, at 10:45 pm
Kabul: At least eleven civilians were killed and four others injured when an improvised bomb struck a vehicle in Afghanistan's central Daykundi province on Tuesday, the provincial police chief confirmed.
Pakistan opens border crossings with Afghanistan in NW province for pedestrians
Sep 29, 2020, at 10:40 pm
Islamabad/Xinhua: Pakistan has announced to open the border crossings with Afghanistan in the country's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province for pedestrian movement from Tuesday, which were closed due to COVID-19 in March, a government notification and officials said.
Balochistan genocide:Political activists meet UK Cabinet member
Sep 29, 2020, at 12:46 am
London: The Central Spokesperson of the Baloch National Movement (BNM) has said the group's delegation recently met the former chairman of the Conservative party in the UK and current state minister for Transportation Grant Shapps and briefed him about the ongoing genocide and oppression in Balochistan.