Rights experts urge China to address grave violations in Xinjiang province
Sep 09, 2022, at 08:06 pm
New York: China must address grave human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), and the international community must not turn a blind eye, more than 40 UN independent experts said on Wednesday.
Tension with Tokyo: China joins Russian-led drills in Sea of Japan
Sep 08, 2022, at 06:05 am
Tokyo: China has sent a flotilla led by its largest destroyer to participate in the joint naval drills with the Russian navy in the Sea of Japan, sending a message to Japan amid strained Sino-Japanese ties.
Pakistan: Karachi Police announces special force to tackle rise in crime
Sep 08, 2022, at 12:08 am
Karachi: Karachi's additional inspector general of police has announced the launch of a ‘Shaheen Force’ to tackle the spike in crime incidents in the city.
Sep 07, 2022, at 11:44 pm
Quetta, Pakistan: A Hindu minor girl has claimed she was lured by the promise that she would be given free ration and then gang-raped for two days in the flood-hit Sindh region of Pakistan, media reports said on Wednesday.
Sep 07, 2022, at 11:42 pm
Kabul: A 40-year-old religious scholar, who is suspected to be a Taliban member, has abducted a minor girl with the intention of marrying her in Bamyan province in central Afghanistan.
Pakistan: Constable die in grenade attack
Sep 07, 2022, at 11:20 pm
A grenade attack in Pakistan's Khanmai police station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region left one police constable dead, media reports said on Wednesday.
Pakistan: Mansehra traders observe strike after local boy electrocuted
Sep 07, 2022, at 11:18 pm
Mansehra, Pakistan: Traders closed shops and stormed a police post in the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital in the Mansehra region of Pakistan on Monday after a boy was electrocuted in a bid to escape during a crackdown on polythene bags.
Pakistan: Pemra stops broadcast of Labaik TV channels
Sep 07, 2022, at 11:15 pm
The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Monday stopped broadcast of TV channels of M/s Labaik Pvt Ltd with immediate effect following a court order and letters written by the Ministry of Interior, media reports said on Wednesday.
Sri Lanka: New Government urged to make progress on accountability, institutional reforms
Sep 07, 2022, at 08:50 pm
New York: Sri Lanka is at a critical juncture and the new Government must make progress on accountability as well as institutional and security sector reforms, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report published on Tuesday.
Sri Lanka donates tea to flood victims of Pakistan
Sep 07, 2022, at 07:22 pm
Colombo: Sri Lanka, a nation combating economic crisis, showed a humanitarian side when the nation donated a consignment of Ceylon tea to the flood victims in Pakistan, media reports said on Wednesday.
New evidence of mass DNA collection in Tibet emerges: HRW
Sep 07, 2022, at 05:12 am
Beijing/Lhasa: Chinese authorities are significantly increasing policing, including an arbitrary collection of DNA from residents in many towns and villages throughout the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), Human Rights Watch said today.
Sep 07, 2022, at 03:25 am
Honiara: The Solomon Islands has triggered new fears of China’s growing influence after it rejected docking permission to two international warships, media reports said.
COVID-19, power outage hit China's manufacturing sector hard
Sep 07, 2022, at 03:16 am
Beijing: China's manufacturing sector has been hit hard and the outlook remains bleak amid a continuing onslaught of the coronavirus and power shortages caused by record heatwaves.
Pakistan rupee drops by Rs1.56 in interbank market
Sep 06, 2022, at 10:27 pm
Islamabad: Pakistan's rupee extended its losses for the second consecutive session this week as it dropped by Rs1.56 against the dollar in the interbank market on Tuesday.
China: Death toll due to earthquake in Sichuan touches 65
Sep 06, 2022, at 09:54 pm
Sinchun: The death toll due to the 6.8 magnitude earthquake which rocked China's Sichuan Province on Monday has touched 65, media reports said on Tuesday.
China: Earthquake death toll rises to 65
Sep 06, 2022, at 05:41 pm
Chengdu/UNI: A total of 65 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 on Tuesday.
Bangladesh will not face Sri Lanka-type economic crisis, assures PM Sheikh Hasina
Sep 06, 2022, at 01:58 am
Dhaka: Rejecting concerns that Bangladesh could go the Sri Lanka way, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that despite the Covid-19 onslaught and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, her country's economy continued to be in robust shape and that her regime exercised a high level of diligence when taking any loans.
Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina feels India can play major role in resolving Rohingya issue
Sep 06, 2022, at 12:26 am
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the Rohingya migrants are a “big burden” on her country and the South Asian nation is reaching out to the international community to ensure their return to their homeland, Myanmar.
Sep 05, 2022, at 11:29 pm
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said she wanted to assure Bangladesh's predominantly Hindu community and the world community that her government strongly supports secularism and that any attempt to disrupt communal harmony will be dealt with immediately.
Afghanistan: Blast in Kabul leaves 2 Russian Embassy workers dead
Sep 05, 2022, at 09:36 pm
Kabul: A blast has hit Darul Aman area of PD7 in Afghanistan capital Kabul city which left two Russian Embassy workers dead, media reports said on Monday.
24 more killed in Pakistan floods
Sep 05, 2022, at 09:00 pm
Islamabad/UNI: At least 24 people were killed and 115 others were injured in heavy monsoon rain-triggered flash floods in the last 24 hours in Pakistan, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said.
My son will decide whether he will come to politics or not: Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina
Sep 05, 2022, at 06:40 pm
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in an interview given to ANI, said it depends on her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and the people of her country whether Joy will come to politics or not.
Pakistan: Flood victims forced to stay under open sky
Sep 05, 2022, at 03:04 pm
Karachi: A large number of flood-hit victims in Pakistan are forced to live under the open sky and dealing with troubles like hunger and disease.
Pakistan: Unknown people gun down cop in Dera Ismail Khan
Sep 05, 2022, at 04:11 am
Unknown people shot dead a police officer in Pakistan's Dera Ismail Khan region when he was going to his duty, media reports said on Sunday.
Pakistan Flood: Balochistan minister rejects Rs10bn aid announced by PM Sharif
Sep 05, 2022, at 04:01 am
Balochistan Agriculture Minister Mir Asadullah Baloch on Friday negated the Rs10 billion grant announced by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for the rehabilitation of those hit by flood in the region.
Back off or we march on Islamabad: Imran Khan warns Sharif-led govt
Sep 05, 2022, at 03:44 am
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has warned the Shehbaz Sharif-led coalition government that he would march to Islamabad if it “continued to torture” his party’s leaders and workers.
Pakistan Floods: Bilwal Bhutto Zardari slams ex-PM Imran Khan for holding concerts in KP, Punjab
Sep 05, 2022, at 03:33 am
Pakistan Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has slammed ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan for holding "concerts" in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab at a time when the nation is ravaged by devastating floods.
Sep 05, 2022, at 01:47 am
New Delhi: Bangladesh PM SHeikh Hasina, who is scheduled to arrive in India on Monday, has revealed that she was once a secret resident of Delhi`s posh Pandara Road, where she lived with her children under an assumed identity trying to escape the attention of those who assassinated her father Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, the man who liberated the country from the cruel hands of Pakistan rule.
Pakistan: Floods cause up to $12.5bln in damage
Sep 04, 2022, at 11:48 pm
Islamabad: Flood damage in Pakistan could reach up to $12.5 billion, Pakistani media reported on Sunday, citing preliminary estimates from the government.
Pakistan floods leave nearly 1,300 people dead, relief ops continue
Sep 04, 2022, at 06:23 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: The catastrophic flood in Pakistan has left nearly 1,300 people dead even as the relief operations continue, media reports said.