Pakistan adheres to one-China policy: foreign ministry
Islamabad/Xinhua/UNI: Pakistan reiterated its longstanding position on Thursday that it adheres to one-China principle regarding a decision to make a national security laws for Hong Kong by the Chinese top legislation body.
Quetta: Pakistan is fighting COVID-19 pandemic but even at this hour of crisis the country's minority communities, specially the Hindus, are constantly facing atrocities.
COVID-19 lockdown badly hits small businessmen in Gilgit Baltistan
Islamabad: The COVID-19 lockdown in Pakistan has badly hit businessmen in Ghizer district of Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan.
Pakistan eagerly awaits intra-Afghan dialogue, thankful for Russia's role - Ambassador
Moscow/Sputnik/UNI: Valentina Shvartsman - Pakistan is looking forward to the intra-Afghan dialogue following recent positive developments and thanks Russia for its contribution to the settlement, Pakistani Ambassador to Russia Shafqat Ali Khan told Sputnik in an interview.
Pakistan receives jolt: Qatar refuses to invest in three major airports
Islamabad: Pakistan seems to have received another jolt at a time when it is trying to set its economic wheel rolling amid COVID-19 outbreak as Qatar Investment Authority refused to invest in a key infra project in the country.
National Commission for Human Rights still non-functional after more than a year in Pakistan
Islamabad: Despite torture inflicted on minorities being reported from different parts of the country every now and then, the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) of Pakistan has been non-functional for more than a year now.
Four-year-old girl injured, her mother killed as death squad members attack them in Balochistan
Quetta: Even as the world continues to fight COVID-19 outbreak, it seems torture on people of Balochistan in Pakistan continues and in the latest episode the victim of the barbaric activity is a four-year-old girl, Bramsh.
Ahmadiyya community once again receives a blow in Pakistan
Islamabad: Pakistan is continuously maintaining their discriminatory attitude towards Ahmadiyya community as they were once again not included in the National Commission for Minorities (NCM), media reports said.
Afghanistan traders are demanding demand clearance of transit cargo at Karachi ports
Islamabad: Afghanistan traders have said their transit cargo is lying at Karachi ports under severe demurrage and detention charges since the first week of March 2020 and they are now demanding a clearance of it.
Demanding safe return of overseas Pakistanis, Jamaat-e-Islami stages demonstration in Peshawar
Peshawar/IBNS: Demanding the Pakistani government to bring back nationals stranded in foreign countries and announce package for them, the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) staged demonstrations across Peshawar recently.
Pastor, family members targeted in Pakistan
Islamabad: A pastor and his family were beaten up and forced to leave the area in Pakistan's Rahim Yar Khan city recently, media reports said.
Glasgow: Glasgow-based human rights activist Amjad Ayub Mirza has said Pakistan is using its non-state actors as its proxies in the Valley of Kashmir to stir disturbance.
Baloch People's Congress condemns Pakistan's 1998 nuclear tests conducted in Chagai
Islamabad/IBNS: The Baloch People's Congress on Saturday condemned the nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan in Chagai district of Balochistan in 1998 that left people of the region suffer miserably from the repercussions.
UNSC might not lift sanctions on Taliban: Russian diplomat
Moscow: The Afghan government released hundreds of Taliban prisoners as part of the peace deal with the United States but even at such a scenario UN Security Council might not lift sanction over the group, according to a Russian diplomat.
Pakistani embassy in Zimbabwe in human trafficking row, sours relations
Harare: Triggering a major row, a Pakistani diplomat in Zimbabwe has been alleged to be involved in human trafficking episodes.