ISLAMABAD — An estimated 16 million children have been impacted by “super floods” in Pakistan with at least 3.4 million of them needing immediate lifesaving support, the UN has said. The situation is extremely grim in flood-hit areas with malnourished children battling diarrhoea, dengue fever, and several painful skin diseases, United Nations International Children’s Emergency […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will appoint a new Army chief on time in November, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said on Saturday and accused former premier Imran Khan of raking up controversy for his personal benefit. Asif’s remarks came days after Khan demanded that the next Chief of Army Staff should be appointed […]
UNITED NATIONS — China has put a hold on a proposal moved at the United Nations by the US and co-supported by India to designate Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant Sajid Mir, one of India’s most wanted militants and the main handler of the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks, as a global terrorist. It is learnt that Beijing […]
SRINAGAR — The Hurriyat Conference on Wednesday said the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Uzbekistan is an opportunity for prime ministers of India and Pakistan to break the ice and move towards resolving their outstanding issues. The SCO will hold its first in-person summit in Samarkand in Uzbekistan on Thursday after two years. This […]
ISLAMABAD — Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday said that the devastation from floods in Pakistan has “overwhelmed” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who ended his two-day visit to the flood-hit areas of the country. Taking to Twitter, Sharif thanked the UN Secretary General for his “unprecedented support” to the flood victims in Pakistan. “During his […]
KARACHI — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned the international community that all countries would suffer damages “beyond their capacity to adapt” if the world failed to respond to the challenge of climate change, Samaa TV reported. After a two-day Pakistan visit, the UN chief took to Twitter to write that he had “never seen […]
ISLAMABAD — The Foreign Office on Monday summoned the Indian Charge d’Affaires (Cd’A) here to lodge a protest over the alleged killing of a Pakistani citizen, who had infiltrated into Jammu and Kashmir to attack an army post. Tabarak Hussain, a trained guide of Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group and Pakistani Army agent, attempted to infiltrate into […]
BEIJING — At least 46 people were reported killed and 16 missing in a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that shook China’s southwestern province of Sichuan on Monday, triggering landslides and shaking buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose 21 million residents are already under a COVID-19 lockdown. The quake struck a mountainous area in Luding […]
BEIJING — Seven people have been killed in a 6.8-magnitude earthquake that jolted Luding County in southwest China’s Sichuan Province on Monday, local authorities said. Damage to the roads, telecommunications and houses is being checked, said the information office of the people’s government of the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The prefecture has dispatched over 600 […]
HERAT — An explosion at a mosque in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan killed a high-profile pro-Taliban scholar as well as more than a dozen civilians. “Eighteen people were martyred in the incident and 23 others were wounded,” Hameedullah Motawakel, spokesman for the governor of Herat province, told reporters. The blast went off […]