Bangladesh: 70 shanties gutted in Kalyanpur fire, 2 injured
Oct 31, 2020, at 11:44 pm
Dhaka: At least 70 shanties were gutted and two people were injured as a fire broke out in Bangladesh capital Dhaka's Kalyanpur area on Friday, media reports said.
Pakistan ready to help Turkey in eliminating earthquake consequences : Foreign Ministry
Oct 31, 2020, at 11:28 pm
New Delhi/Sputnik: Pakistan is ready to provide assistance to Turkey in eliminating the consequences of the devastating earthquake that hit Izmir province on Friday, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureishi said on Saturday.
Bangladesh AC blasts: Mosque committee chief arrested
Oct 31, 2020, at 10:12 pm
Narayanganj: The Bangladesh Criminal Investigation Department or CID officials have arrested the head of Baitus Salat Jame Mosque's management committee over a case related to the blasts of airconditioner which killed 34 people recently.
Afghanistan: Key Taliban leader killed in airstrike
Oct 31, 2020, at 09:25 pm
Kabul: Afghanistan's Ministry of Defence on Saturday said the deputy head of the Taliban military commission for Helmand province has been killed during airstrike.
Pakistan ranks among top 10 countries where killers of journalists go unpunished: CPJ
Oct 31, 2020, at 07:15 pm
Islamabad: Pakistan has ranked ninth in the Global Impunity Index of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) list which has named the nations where journalists are murdered and their killers go free.
China: World Uyghur Congress calls for meaningful action to end Uyghur genocide
Oct 31, 2020, at 07:04 pm
London: On the occasion of the UN’s 75th anniversary, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) recently reiterated its calls on the UN and its Member States to meaningfully address the Uyghur crisis and hold the Chinese government accountable for its crimes.
Oct 31, 2020, at 06:56 pm
London: London-based Pakistani human rights activist and spokeswoman for Justice of Minorities in Pakistan Anila Gulzar slammed the Pakistan government over the kidnapping and forceful conversion of a Christian minor girl in the country.
Pakistan: Protesters attempt to storm French Embassy in Islamabad, police fire teargas
Oct 31, 2020, at 04:06 am
Islamabad/IBNS: Pakistan police on Friday fired teargas on protesters who attempted to storm the French Embassy in Islamabad to protests against the printing of images depicting the Prophet Mohammad and President Emmanuel Macron defending the same.
Campaign For Uyghurs calls to end atrocities carried out on Uyghurs by China
Oct 31, 2020, at 01:18 am
Washington: Campaign For Uyghurs recently commemorated the 22nd anniversary of the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act (IRF Act) by urging all nations to end the atrocities carried out on Uyghurs by the Chinese Communist Party.
Christian minor girl abducted, converted to Islam in Pakistan: Reports
Oct 31, 2020, at 01:10 am
Islamabad: A minor Christain girl has been kidnapped and forced to marry a 44-year-old man who made her convert to Islam, highlighting an incident which again showed the plight of minorities in Pakistan.
Activist Amjad Ayub Mirza says Pakistanis desperately want to get rid of military oligarchy
Oct 31, 2020, at 12:59 am
Glasgow: A prominent human rights activist has said the people of Pakistan are desperately wanting to get rid of the military oligarchy.
ETNAM appreciates US Senate for introducing resolution that calls atrocities on Uyghurs as genocide
Oct 31, 2020, at 12:50 am
Washington: US-based rights group East Turkistan National Awakening Movement (ETNAM) has appreciated the US Senate for introducing a resolution which recognises the atrocities carried out by China on Uyghurs as a genocide.
Bangladesh: Intellectuals form Sampritee Bangladesh to provide a strong platform for secular forces
Oct 31, 2020, at 12:19 am
Dhaka: Several intellectuals have joined to form an organisation called Sampritee Bangladesh (Sampriti meaning harmony) which aims to give strength to secular forces and weaken those who attempt to target the nation.
Bangladesh registers 19 new COVID-19 deaths
Oct 30, 2020, at 10:46 pm
Dhaka: Bangladesh registered 19 more COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll due to the disease to 5,905, media reports said on Friday.
China reiterates claim over Taiwan
Oct 28, 2020, at 11:32 pm
Beijing/UNI: The Chinese government on Wednesday again made claims over Taiwan, calling it a part of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Pakistan: Schools ‘must never be targeted’, UNICEF says after deadly blast
Oct 28, 2020, at 10:40 pm
New York: A deadly bombing that killed at least seven people at a religious school in Pakistan on Tuesday, has been strongly condemned by the Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Afghanistan: Helmand districts cleared of Taliban: Afghan Defence Ministry
Oct 28, 2020, at 09:35 pm
Kabul/UNI: Afghanistan's Defence Ministry on Wednesday claimed that the ongoing operations by Afghan forces have been successful in clearing parts of Nawa and Nad Ali districts of the Helmand province of Taliban insurgents.
Stop hyping up China threat: Beijing to Mike Pompeo
Oct 28, 2020, at 01:19 am
New Delhi/UNI: China on Tuesday asked the US to stop "hyping up the so-called China threat" and sowing discord between countries and undermining peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.
Afghanistan: Attack on police special unit center leaves 3 killed
Oct 27, 2020, at 08:16 pm
Khost; At least three people were killed as an attack took place on a police special unit center in eastern Khost province of Afghanistan on Tuesday, media reports said.
Pakistan: Blast rocks Peshawar madressah, 7 killed
Oct 27, 2020, at 07:05 pm
Peshawar: A blast rocked Jamia Zuberia madressah in Peshawar's Dir Colony of Pakistan which left at least seven people killed, media reports said.
PTM leaders protests detention of Mohsin Dawar
Oct 27, 2020, at 05:31 pm
Quetta: Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement activists recently demonstrated in Quetta against the treatment given to leader Mohsin Dawar on Saturday.
5 killed, many injured in blast in mosque in Pakistan's Peshawar
Oct 27, 2020, at 04:02 pm
Islamabad/UNI: At least five people were killed and 55 others injured in a powerful explosion at a mosque in Peshawar, the capital city of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday morning.
Hong Kong Conflict: China threatens to stop recognizing BN (O) passport
Oct 27, 2020, at 04:08 am
Beijing: The Chinese government has threatened to stop recognising the BN (O) [British National (Overseas)] passports, marking the start of a new episode in the conflict between Hong Kong and Beijing.
Coronavirus: Bangladesh registers 15 more deaths, toll reaches 5,818
Oct 26, 2020, at 11:22 pm
Dhaka/UNI: The death toll from coronavirus has reached 5,818 as 15 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours.
Pakistan Army had no weapons during Kargil, claims former PM Nawaz Sharif
Oct 26, 2020, at 10:58 pm
London/UNI: Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif has claimed that during 1999 Kargil war the country did not have weapons and the soldiers were sent to the peaks, without food, by a handful of generals.
Pakistan Senate questions legal status of CPEC Authority
Oct 26, 2020, at 06:02 pm
Islamabad: The Pakistani Senate on Friday questioned the legality of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority Ordinance, media reports said.
Pakistan: Students' body condemns police brutality on protesting Pakhtuns in university campus
Oct 26, 2020, at 05:58 pm
Islamabad: The Pakhtun Students Federation (PSF), an allied student wing of Pakistan’s Awami National Party (ANP), has condemned the police baton charge over a peaceful protest in Peshawar University campus last week.
Afghanistan: Magnetic mine blast leave three dead in Kabul
Oct 26, 2020, at 05:40 pm
Kabul: At least three people were killed as a magnetic mine blast rocked Kabul city on Monday, media reports said.
Four children killed in bomb blast in Afghanistan’s Paktika province
Oct 26, 2020, at 04:01 pm
Kabul/Sputnik: A bomb blast in Sharana, the capital of Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika Province, has killed at least four children, Paktika police spokesman Shah Mohammad Aryan told Sputnik.
Afghanistan: UN Mission voices ‘deep revulsion’ over deadly bomb attack on Kabul college
Oct 26, 2020, at 03:44 pm
New York: The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has expressed “deep revulsion” at the killing on Saturday night of at least 24 people, according to latest reports, and injuring of dozens of others in a suicide attack outside an education centre.