Pakistan: Unknown gunmen attack cop assigned to protect polio vaccination team
Dec 11, 2021, at 11:33 pm
Tank: Unknown gunmen attacked a policeman who was assigned to protect a polio vaccination team in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Tank, media reports said on Saturday.
India sends humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan
Dec 11, 2021, at 10:59 pm
New Delhi: A special flight from Kabul to New Delhi, chartered by the Government of India, arrived at the IGI airport at New Delhi on Dec 10, officials said on Saturday.
Afghanistan: Twin explosions rock Kabul, two die
Dec 11, 2021, at 02:38 pm
Kabul: At least two people died as twin blasts rocked Afghanistan's Kabul city on Friday, media reports said on Saturday.
Forced labour in China: US House of Representatives passes bill to ban imports from Xinjiang
Dec 11, 2021, at 03:50 am
Washington: The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved forced labour legislation that would ban the importation of goods sourced in China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, media reports said on Friday.
Pakistan Rangers thrash photojournalist
Dec 11, 2021, at 03:18 am
Islamabad/IBNS: Pakistani Rangers personnel badly beat up a Pak journalist while he was covering MQM’s Shuhada Day gathering near Nine-Zero.
Pakistan: Baloch leader Mir Yousuf Masti held for making ‘anti-state’ speech
Dec 11, 2021, at 03:05 am
Gwadar, Pakistan/IBNS: The Pakistan Police have arrested veteran Baloch leader Mir Yousuf Masti Khan on the charge of making a “provocative and anti-state” speech at a protest sit-in staged by the people of Gwadar.
Dec 11, 2021, at 02:56 am
Gilgit, Pakistan/IBNS: People in Pakistan's Gilgit region blocked roads on Thursday to demonstrate against the supply of substandard wheat and reduction of subsidised wheat quota for Gilgit-Baltistan.
Pakistan: Islamabad witnesses protest over enforced disappearance in Balochistan
Dec 11, 2021, at 01:03 am
Islamabad/IBNS: A large number of people demonstrated in Pakistan's capital Islamabad to protest against enforced disappearances in Balochistan.
Survey shows more than 50pc of Pakistanis hold govt incompetence responsible for inflation
Dec 11, 2021, at 12:44 am
Islamabad: A survey conducted by Transparency International Pakistan, a national chapter of Germany-based Transparency International (TI), has showed over 50 percent of Pakistanis believe that the country is facing problems of rising inflation and unemployment due to the “incompetence” of the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government.
Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami to observe Balochistan Solidarity Day on Dec 12
Dec 11, 2021, at 12:41 am
Balochistan, Pakistan/IBNS: Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has announced that they will observe Balochistan Solidarity Day on December 12 (Sunday) with an aim to highlight the troubles of the Baloch people.
Pakistani man arrested in Greece's Kalivia after being seen with his pants down
Dec 11, 2021, at 12:38 am
Kalivia, Greece/IBNS: Police have arrested a 21-year-old Pakistani national after he was seen standing with his pants down around children in the Greek city of Kalivia.
Dec 10, 2021, at 11:35 pm
A large section of Tibetan children in China have been placed in a vast system of government-run boarding schools, where they are cut off from their families, languages and traditional culture, according to an analysis of official data by researchers at the Tibet Action Institute, media reports said on Friday.
Jailed Chinese journalist, disappeared rights lawyer win Lin Zhao Freedom Award
Dec 10, 2021, at 11:19 pm
Washington: Jailed Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan and disappeared rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng have been awarded the Lin Zhao Freedom Award for their contributions in promoting civil society and advancing the rule of law.
Layoff: China’s Big Tech mount with Kuaishou, iQiyi said to be joining ByteDance in job cuts
Dec 10, 2021, at 06:02 pm
Beijing: Short video giant Kuaishou, rival ByteDance, and Baidu-owned video-streaming platform iQiyi are trimming their payrolls, marking yet another wave of job cuts in China, media reports said.
Hong Kong: Media tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted over banned Tiananmen Massacre vigil
Dec 10, 2021, at 05:55 pm
Hong Kong: Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and two others have been convicted of charges linked to last year’s banned Tiananmen Massacre vigil, media reports said on Friday.
Taiwan: Five Chinese military planes enter ADIZ
Dec 10, 2021, at 04:44 pm
Taipei: As many as five Chinese military planes entered Taiwan’s air defence identification zone (ADIZ) on Thursday, media reports said.
Pak Election Commissioner orders PM Imran Khan to cancel scheduled visit to Peshawar
Dec 09, 2021, at 02:50 am
Islamabad: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Wednesday ordered Prime Minister Imran Khan to cancel his scheduled visit to Peshawar ahead of local bodies elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
Bangladesh: 20 sentenced to death in sensational student murder
Dec 09, 2021, at 02:40 am
Dhaka/UNI/Xinhua: A court in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Wednesday handed down death sentence to 20 people accused in a sensational student murder case.
Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina is the 43rd most influential woman in the world
Dec 08, 2021, at 11:46 pm
Dhaka/UNI: This year, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been ranked 43rd in the list of 100 most influential women in the world, it was reported on Wednesday.
Australia now joins US in diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics
Dec 08, 2021, at 04:26 pm
Canberra/UNI: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday stated that his diplomats will not attend the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, joining the US in a formal boycott of the event over China's human right abuses.
Afghan refugees in Indonesia sew their lips to protest against UNHCR
Dec 08, 2021, at 04:30 am
Jakarta/UNI: Afghan refugees in Indonesia have sewn their lips shut in an attempt to draw United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)'s attention as the organization has failed to address their problems and process their asylum-seeking cases.
Pakistan: 12 under-trial prisoners escape Lahore district court
Dec 08, 2021, at 02:34 am
Lahore, Pakistan: As many as 12 under-trial prisoners escaped a district court in Pakistan's Lahore on Monday, media reports said.
Microsoft says it disrupts activities of China-based hacking group
Dec 08, 2021, at 02:25 am
Washington, US: The corporate vice president of Microsoft's Customer Security and Trust (CST) team, Tom Burt, said Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has disrupted the activities of a China-based hacking group that has been termed "Nickel" by the American multinational technology company.
Dec 08, 2021, at 01:58 am
Islamabad: Residents of Bangash belt of Pakistan's Kohat region have often complained that local youths need to quit education after matriculation since the area has a lack of colleges for both girls and boys.
Bangabandhu would’ve wanted formal apology for 1971 atrocities: Ex-Pakistani diplomat
Dec 08, 2021, at 12:26 am
Dhaka: Former Pakistani diplomat Husain Haqqani has said if Bangladesh's founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman lived today then he would have supported the idea of formal apology from Pakistan for the tragedy inflicted upon the people of Bangladesh in 1971.
Religious scholars to oversee syllabus taught in educational institutions: Pak official
Dec 08, 2021, at 12:19 am
Islamabad: Special Assistant to the Pakistan Prime Minister on Political Communication, Shahbaz Gill, has said the syllabus of educational institutes in the country should nurture students’ mindset in line with the Islamic code of life and ethics.
Unidentified men abduct Pakistani national who arrives in Karachi airport from Germany
Dec 07, 2021, at 11:46 pm
Karachi, Pakistan: Unidentified men reportedly abducted a Pakistani national, who had arrived at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi from Germany, and his friend, who went to receive him, from the airport area, according to Pak media outlets.
Dec 07, 2021, at 11:37 pm
Islamabad: Pakistan's Defence Minister Pervez Khattak has said "murders take place when young people get emotional" as he defended the lynching of the Sri Lankan national in Sialkot over allegations of blasphemy while stating that it should not be linked to the government's decision to lift the ban on the hardline Islamist outfit, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
Dec 07, 2021, at 11:25 pm
Kabul: Essential services for women and girl survivors of gender-based violence in Afghanistan have been decimated following the Taliban’s takeover of the country, London-based global human rights organization Amnesty International said Tuesday.
General Assembly defers decision on Afghanistan and Myanmar seats
Dec 07, 2021, at 05:34 pm
New York: The UN General Assembly on Monday adopted a resolution to delay a decision on who will represent Afghanistan and Myanmar at the world body.