Bangladesh: RAB officials arrest banned terrorist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir member from Dhaka
Dec 26, 2022, at 10:52 pm
Dhaka: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested a member of banned terrorist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir from Kamrangirchar area of Dhaka, media reports said on Monday.
Afghanistan: Explosion rocks Badakhshan province, casualties feared
Dec 26, 2022, at 08:30 pm
Faizabad, Afghanistan: An explosion rocked Faizabad, the capital of northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province on Monday, with casualties feared, an official said.
Pakistan: Terror convict awarded bar council licence
Dec 26, 2022, at 03:30 am
Islamabad: A Pakistani advocate, who has been convicted in a terror case, was able to get his licence from Sindh Bar Council (SBC) to practice the law, media reports said on Sunday.
Pakistan: IED blast leaves four Army personnel dead
Dec 26, 2022, at 02:45 am
Kahan: Four Pakistani army personnel died due to an improvised explosive device (IED) blast during a clearance operation in Balochistan’s Kahan area on Sunday, officials said.
Pakistan: US govt prohibits staff from visiting Islamabad's Marriott Hotel citing 'possible attack'
Dec 26, 2022, at 01:44 am
Islamabad: The US government on Sunday prohibited its staff from visiting Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's Islamabad city due to possible attack.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal appointed as Nepal PM for third time
Dec 26, 2022, at 12:30 am
Kathmandu: Chairperson of CPN - Maoist Center Pushpa Kamal Dahal was appointed as the Prime Minister of the new post-election government on Sunday, media reports said.
Pakistan: Grenade blast leaves four people hurt in Quetta
Dec 25, 2022, at 11:35 pm
Quetta: At least four people were injured as a grenade blast rocked Pakistan's Quetta city on Sunday, media reports said.
Afghanistan: After restriction on education, Taliban now bans women from working for NGOs
Dec 25, 2022, at 09:03 pm
Amid massive Covid surge, China to stop reporting daily infection figures
Dec 25, 2022, at 07:23 pm
China's National Health Commission will stop releasing daily COVID-19 case figures for the country from Sunday, Reuters reported.
Pakistan: Bodies of three kidnapped members of a family recovered
Dec 24, 2022, at 10:40 pm
Karachi: Bodies of three people, who were kidnapped a day earlier, have been recovered from Pakistan's South Waziristan on Saturday, media reports said.
Pakistan: Flour price hits record high of Rs 2500 per 20kg in Karachi
Dec 24, 2022, at 10:36 pm
Karachi: Flour prices in Pakistan's Karachi city have spiked to Rs 2500 per 20-kilogramme bag against last week’s Rs2,400, media reports said on Saturday.
Pakistan: CTD arrests seven suspected terrorists
Dec 24, 2022, at 09:35 pm
Islamabad: The Punjab Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Saturday arrested seven suspected terrorists during an intelligence-based operation, media reports said on Saturday.
Suspension of women’s education in Afghanistan is against Islamic values: Prominent Islamic Scholar
Dec 24, 2022, at 09:31 pm
Kabul: Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed El-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of al-Azhar University, has described the recent decision taken by the Taliban government in Afghanistan to ban women from studying in universities as against Islamic principles.
Dec 24, 2022, at 03:09 pm
Quetta: Political activists and students demonstrated in the Pakistani city of Quetta against the Taliban-led Afghan government’s decision to impose a ban on women’s university education.
China estimated to have reported 37 million Covid-19 cases in a single day this week: Report
Dec 24, 2022, at 03:26 am
Beijing: China may have registered 37 million coronavirus cases in this week, making it the highest daily recorded so far, Bloomberg reported citing an estimate from the government's top health authority.
Imran Khan's ex-wife Reham Khan, a British Pakistani journalist, marries again
Dec 23, 2022, at 10:56 pm
London: British-Pakistani journalist Reham Khan, who is the former wife of ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan, on Friday announced she has got married.
Afghanistan reaffirms commitment to combating cross-border terrorism, says Pakistan
Dec 23, 2022, at 09:37 pm
Kabul: The current Afghan government has reaffirmed its commitments to Pakistan in terms of security and fight against cross-border terrorism, Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said on Thursday.
Pakistan: Islamabad suicide attack leaves one policeman dead
Dec 23, 2022, at 09:33 pm
Islamabad: At least one policeman died and six others, including two cops, were hurt as a suicide blast rocked Islamabad’s I-10/4 sector on Friday, media reports said.
Pakistan: One policeman killed, six others injured in suicide blast in Islamabad
Dec 23, 2022, at 07:29 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: One policeman was killed and at least six people were injured in a suicide blast in Pakistan's capital city Islamabad on Friday, police officials said.
Afghanistan: Kabul witnesses protest as Taliban bans women from attending universities
Dec 23, 2022, at 02:57 pm
Kabul: Thousands of women participated in Kabul city of Afghanistan on Thursday over the Taliban administration's decision to ban female students from attending universities.
Pakistan: Enraged people in Karachi lynch suspected robber as crime continues to spike
Dec 23, 2022, at 01:10 am
Karachi: Enraged people in Pakistan's Karachi city recently took law and order in their own hands and lynched a suspect on Monday, who shot a young man over resistance in the same Korangi area where a law student was killed one day ago for putting up resistance to bike snatchers.
Pakistan: Suicide blast rocks Miranshah, soldier dies
Dec 23, 2022, at 12:58 am
North Waziristan, Pakistan: A suicide blast occurred in North Waziristan in Miranshah town in Pakistan which left at least a soldier and two civilians dead, media reports said on Wednesday.
Pakistan’s poverty rate spikes by 35.7%
Dec 23, 2022, at 12:54 am
Islamabad: The poverty rate in Pakistan has spiked by 35.7 percent and the prices of edibles have increased by 20 to 31 percent, as per a Pakistani media report.
Dec 22, 2022, at 01:23 am
Kabul: Afghan authorities have stopped letting female students attend universities following the decision of the Taliban (sanctioned by the UN for terrorism) to suspend higher education for women in the country, a female Afghan student told Sputnik on Wednesday.
Pakistan: Militants storm Wana police station, escape with arms
Dec 21, 2022, at 10:59 pm
South Waziristan: Dozens of terrorists entered a police station in Pakistan's Wana town on Tuesday and escaped after looting arms and ammunition, media reports said on Wednesday.
Dec 21, 2022, at 08:58 pm
United Nations: Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari appealed to the international community to maintain the flow of aid to help the South Asian nation's recovery from floods that ravaged the country ahead of a United Nations conference next month to mobilize funding, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Taliban bans women from attending universities
Dec 21, 2022, at 03:04 pm
Kabul: The Taliban administrators of Afghanistan have banned women from going to universities.
No compromise in engagement with world: Taliban Minister of Afghanistan
Dec 21, 2022, at 12:56 am
Kabul: Taliban Acting Minister of Vice and Virtue, Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, on Sunday, said the Afghanistan government is ready to engage with the international community, but the world should not seek any compromise with the caretaker government.
Pakistan: Three people gunned down in North Waziristan
Dec 21, 2022, at 12:07 am
North Waziristan: At least three people were killed as a car caught fire after unidentified gunmen attacked the vehicle in Pakistan's Khadri area on Friday,media reports said.
TTP attacking Pakistan from within its territory: Pakistan Taliban chief Noor Wali Mehsud
Dec 21, 2022, at 12:02 am
Islamabad: Pakistani Taliban leader Noor Wali Mehsud has said the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is attacking Pakistan from “within its territory”.