Pakistan: Police bust child pornography ring in Sahiwal
Sep 15, 2021, at 12:11 am
Sahiwal: Pakistan police have busted an active paedophile and child pornography ring in the country's Sahiwal region, media reports said.
Panjgur targeted killing: Hundreds demonstrate in Balochistan
Sep 15, 2021, at 12:03 am
Gwadar: Hundreds of people demonstrated in Balochistan on Sunday against targeted killings in Panjgur region, media reports said.
Pakistan journalists protest outside Parliament House against govt’s plan to bulldoze PMDA
Sep 14, 2021, at 11:40 pm
Islamabad: The journalist fraternity in Pakistan on Sunday began a sit-in outside the Parliament House here to demonstrate against the government’s plan to bulldoze the Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) legislation through a joint sitting of parliament.
Taliban to change Afghanistan education curriculum as per Sharia Law
Sep 14, 2021, at 11:35 pm
Kabul: Taliban rulers of Afghanistan have decided to drop certain subjects from the higher education curriculum as they do not go with the Islamic Sharia Law.
Afghanistan: Taliban insurgents assault woman, abduct five members of her family in Kabul
Sep 14, 2021, at 11:19 pm
Kabul: Taliban insurgents on Saturday assaulted a woman and abducted five of her family members in Kabul city, media reports said.
$1 billion pledge a ‘quantum leap’ in commitment to Afghanistan: UN chief
Sep 14, 2021, at 11:14 pm
New York: UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday hailed significant international financial support pledged to the people of Afghanistan following a meeting in Geneva, which nearly doubled the initial $606 million flash appeal for the country.
Afghan women posts images in colourful dresses to challenge Taliban decree
Sep 14, 2021, at 11:05 pm
Kabul: Breaking the rule set by Taliban that eves should wear all-black attire in the nation, a group of Afghanistan women, who stay abroad, have posted their own images online wearing colourful traditional Afghan clothes.
Support Afghans in their most perilous hour, urges UN’s Guterres
Sep 14, 2021, at 10:18 pm
New York: The international community should urgently offer a “lifeline” to millions of vulnerable Afghans “who face perhaps their most perilous hour”, the UN Secretary-General said on Monday.
Taliban insurgents detain Panjshir civilians, put them in trunks of vehicle
Sep 14, 2021, at 06:36 pm
Kabul: A video has surfaced on the social media where civilians from Panjshir region of Afghanistan were seen detained by Taliban insurgents and put in trunks of two vehicles.
Afghanistan: Women in Nangarhar protest in support to Taliban
Sep 14, 2021, at 06:29 pm
Nangarhar: Nangarhar province in Afghanistan witnessed a strange protest recently when women demonstrated in support of Taliban insurgents who have taken control over the nation.
Chinese man detained as he enters illegally into Taiwan waters
Sep 14, 2021, at 05:51 pm
Taipei: A Chinese man, who was travelling in a rubber boat, was intercepted by coast guard officers in Taiwan's territorial waters on Sunday, media reports said on Monday.
China's growing use of military drones is putting regional stability 'at risk'
Sep 14, 2021, at 04:43 pm
Beijing: Regional stability seems to be at risk as China is using unmanned aircraft capabilities and focusing on increasingly sophisticated military drones, media reports said.
Satellite images show thousands of Afghans stranded at Pak border: Reports
Sep 14, 2021, at 04:33 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Amid reports of desperate Afghans trying to leave their country after Kabul takeover, satellite images exclusive to NDTV channel show thousands stranded at Afghanistan's border with Pakistan.
Afghanistan: UN High Commissioner for Refugees arrives in Kabul to assess humanitarian needs
Sep 13, 2021, at 10:47 pm
Moscow/UNI/Sputnik: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi announced on Monday that he arrived in the Afghan capital of Kabul to assess Afghanistan's humanitarian needs.
Afghanistan: Taliban to remove subjects contradicting Sharia Law from university curriculum
Sep 13, 2021, at 10:36 pm
Moscow/UNI/Sputnik: The Taliban's Ministry of Higher Education announced that it will remove subjects considered as running counter to the Islam's Sharia law from the curriculum of Afghanistan's universities.
Afghanistan: First Pakistan International Airlines flight lands Kabul
Sep 13, 2021, at 09:34 pm
Islamabad/Kabul: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane from Islamabad reached Kabul airport on Monday, the first commercial flight to reach the city since Taliban overran it in August.
Pakistan: Women prisoners in Peshawar jail suffering due to lack of separate prison
Sep 13, 2021, at 05:59 am
Peshawar: Women prisoners in Pakistan's Peshawar are facing a new challenge as they do not have a separate prison ever since the demolition of a British era building.
Pakistan: Assets of key opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif’s daughter, son attached
Sep 13, 2021, at 05:56 am
Lahore: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) informed an accountability court in Pakistan on Saturday that properties owned by the Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif’s daughter Rabia and son-in-law Imran Ali Yousaf have been attached as they are absconders.
Marriyum Aurangzeb slams PTI, calls EVMs ‘election fraud machines’
Sep 13, 2021, at 05:53 am
Islamabad: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Information Secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb has attacked the use of EVM in polls and said the federal ministers are attempting to trample upon Pakistan’s constitution to rob the next voting through the ‘election fraud machines’.
'Barbaric' video shows Afghanistan Taliban insurgents rejoicing with severed head of soldier
Sep 13, 2021, at 05:40 am
Kabul: A barbaric video has emerged where Taliban insurgents could be seen celebrating with the severed head of an Afghan soldier.
Chinese Threat: Japan, Vietnam sign defence transfer deal
Sep 13, 2021, at 05:28 am
Tokyo: Japan and Vietnam have signed a defence transfer deal amid worries about China's growing military influence in the region.
China may become greater threat for UK: Duncan Smith
Sep 13, 2021, at 04:19 am
London: British politician Duncan Smith has said China will become a greater threat for the UK and the West in the upcoming days.
No sign of banned Uyghur outfit in Afghanistan: Taliban tells China
Sep 13, 2021, at 03:51 am
Taliban insurgents have told China that the shadowy Uyghur Islamic group that Beijing has used as justification for increasingly harsh rule over the Muslim ethnic minority in its far-western Xinjiang region is not present in Afghanistan and won’t be allowed to return.
Germany: Afghanis demonstrate against Taliban in Hamburg
Sep 13, 2021, at 03:33 am
Hamburg: Hundreds of Afghanistanis, who are currently living in Germany, demonstrated in Hamburg city against the Taliban group which captured Afghanistan last month.
China: Toshiba to shut down its plant in Dalian
Sep 13, 2021, at 03:17 am
Tokyo: Japanese technology giant Toshiba will shut its plant in the Chinese city of Dalian at the end of the month.
Afghan embassy in Rome marks 20th death anniversary of guerrilla commander Massoud with symposium
Sep 13, 2021, at 03:10 am
Rome: A high-level symposium was recently hosted in Rome to mark the 20th death anniversary of Afghanistan’s guerrilla commander Ahmed Shah Massoud. The event was hosted on Friday by the Embassy of Afghanistan.
Xi Jinping has not moved outside China for past 600 days
Sep 13, 2021, at 02:59 am
Beijing: China's President Xi Jinping has not left his nation for the past 600 days and experts believe it might further hamper the relationship with Western countries, according to a Bloomberg report.
Afghanistan: Female doctor in Kandahar says Taliban insurgents hit her
Sep 13, 2021, at 01:37 am
Kandahar: A female doctor has claimed she was beaten up by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's Kandahar region, media reports said.
Schools reopen in Bangladesh after 543 days break due to COVID-19
Sep 13, 2021, at 12:53 am
Dhaka: Ending a long break of 543 days amid COVID-19 outbreak, schools reopened in Bangladesh on Sunday as students returned to classrooms to take their lessons.
Afghan pilots in Uzbekistan to get flown to US base in Doha: Reports
Sep 12, 2021, at 02:30 pm
Washington/UNI/Sputnik: A group of Afghan pilots are expected to be transferred to a US military base from Uzbekistan this weekend, under a new agreement between the US and Uzbek governments, The Wall Street Journal reported citing people familiar with the matter.