ISLAMABAD — After Pakistan and Russia signed a fresh agreement to lay a gas pipeline, prospects of Russian President Vladimir Putin visiting Islamabad for the very first time were on the cards. The project, previously named The North-South Gas Pipeline, has now been renamed as Pakistan Steam Gas Pipeline, in which a gas pipeline will […]
PESHAWAR — Nine people have drowned after their overloaded jeep fell into the Yarkhoon River in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to a media report on Monday. The accident occurred on the Onauch Suspension Bridge, near Yarkhoon Valley, on Sunday, the Dawn newspaper reported. The jeep began its journey with 11 people aboard, including the driver, […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday said that it couldn’t restart trade with India as it would tantamount to betrayal with Kashmir cause. He said that the government couldn’t even think of normalisation with India until breakthrough on Kashmir dispute is made. The trade would lead to sellout of Kashmiri blood. Imran […]
NEW DELHI/BEIJING – In an unusual diplomatic move, China on Friday lashed out at the British blaming them for India’s troubles in Kashmir. In a series of tweets, the Chinese government spokesperson Zhao Lijian attacked the UK and its British imperialistic past, with respect to India and Indian Kashmir. “If British India was the jewel […]
GAZA CITY — Hamas’ leader in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday said 80 militants were killed during the 11-day war with Israel that ended last week, providing the group’s first official tally for losses sustained in the fighting. Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry has put the number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli offensive this month […]
SINDH – Pakistani lawmaker has sought to bring a law making it compulsory for parents to wed off their children once they turn 18 years old. Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) MPA Syed Abdul Rasheed submitted a draft of “The Sindh Compulsory Marriage Act, 2021” to the Sindh Assembly Secretariat on Wednesday which seeks to make marriage […]
ANKARA – A Turkish military plane carrying medical supplies to fight COVID-19 left on Tuesday for India’s capital New Delhi, Turkey’s Defense Ministry announced on Twitter. The plane was carrying medical supplies, including 630 oxygen tubes, five oxygen generators, 50 ventilators, and 50,000 boxes of tablet medicines prepared by the Turkish Red Crescent and Turkey’s […]
ISLAMABAD – Foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday said in the Senate that Pakistan would not provide its military bases to the United States for future counter-terrorism operations in Afghanistan and also not allow drone attacks inside Pakistan. The foreign minister also rejected as unfounded the reports of providing the US, bases in Pakistan, […]
BEIJING – China on Monday again defended its USD 60 billion CPEC project with Pakistan, disregarding India’s protests as it is being laid through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, saying it is an economic initiative and has not affected its principled stand on the Kashmir issue. Leaders of China and Pakistan have praised the progress of the China-Pakistan […]
ANKARA – The Pakistani Air Force (PAF) has agreed to cooperate with a “notorious” Turkish paramilitary group that has been accused by the United Nations of deploying fighters from Syrian armed groups to take part in military operations in Libya. The Pakistani Air Force’s policy thinks tank, the Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies (CASS), […]