Jun 10, 2020, at 09:48 am
Members of Activists of Youth Action Committee have demonstrated outside the local press club in Pakistan's Nawabshah city against the federal government’s plans for construction of Bhasha dam on Indus River.
Story of Minorities in Pakistan: Two Christains converted to Islam
Jun 09, 2020, at 06:19 pm
Two Christian brothers in Pakistan, who were on duty at the Dogra Quarantine Center, were converted to Islam recently adding to the growing number of conversions in Islamic country where minorities are allegedly in the receiving end.
Prisoners protest over Pakistan's jail COVID-19 infections
Jun 09, 2020, at 05:47 pm
Islamabad/Xinhua: Prisoners in Pakistan's south Sindh province lodged a protest and held four policemen hostage after their seven inmates were tested positive of COVID-19, local media reported on Tuesday.
Former Afghan Senator shot dead by Taliban in eastern Logar province
Jun 09, 2020, at 04:28 pm
Kabul/Sputnik/UNI: Former Afghan senator Abdul Wali Ahmadzai has been shot dead by Taliban militants in Pol-e Alam, the capital of Afghanistan's eastern province of Logar, after being kidnapped, a spokesman for the provincial governor said on Tuesday.
Bangladesh records 45 more deaths, toll rises to 975
Jun 09, 2020, at 03:54 pm
Dhaka/UNI: Bangladesh on Tuesday confirmed 45 more deaths and 3,171 more infections from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
Experts blame Pak policymakers' complacency for 'depressingly wrong' trading ability with China
Jun 09, 2020, at 09:45 am
Karachi: Blaming the complacency of the policymakers and exporters, experts believe that Pakistan's trading abilities have been 'depressingly wrong' so far as it's dealing with all-weather ally China.
COVID-19 peak might be reached by end of July: Pakistan PM warns
Jun 09, 2020, at 08:38 am
Islamabad/IBNS: Pakistan PM Imran Khan on Monday warned his countrymen that the peak of COVID-19 cases might be reached by the end of July or at the beginning of August.
COVID-19: Bangladesh records 42 more deaths
Jun 08, 2020, at 07:09 pm
Dhaka, Jun 8 (UNI) The death toll from coronavirus in Bangladesh has surged to 930 with 42 new fatalities on Monday.
Former Pakistan PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi tests COVID-19 positiveÂ
Jun 08, 2020, at 03:32 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: Former prime minister and PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has tested positive for COVID-19, media reports said.
Pakistan Military is running profit enterprises, says report in Indian defence industry platform
Jun 08, 2020, at 09:41 am
An online platform of Indian defence industry has highlighted how the Pakistani Army, away from the primary work of protecting the country's border, is working to continue its roaring business empire that it has established for the past seven decades.
Pakistan: Multi-storey building collapses in Karachi, 2 die
Jun 08, 2020, at 08:46 am
Karachi/IBNS: A multi-storey residential building collapsed in Pakistan's Karachi city on Sunday, leaving at least two people dead, media reports said.
Suspected 'Taliban' militants kill four members of family in Afghanistan Â
Jun 07, 2020, at 06:45 pm
Kabul/IBNS: Suspected Taliban terrorists killed four members of a family, including a tribal elder, in Maidan Wardak province of Afghanistan, media reports said on Sunday.
Former Bangladesh minister, who tested COVID-19 positive, is in 'very critical state'
Jun 07, 2020, at 05:52 pm
Dhaka: Health condition of Bangladesh's former health minister and Awami League MP Mohammed Nasim, who is infected with COVID-19, is in "very critical state", media reports said.
China records 6 new COVID-19 cases: Health Authorities
Jun 07, 2020, at 10:56 am
Beijing/Sputnik: China has registered six new coronavirus cases across the country in the past 24 hours, with no new deaths due to the disease, the National Health Commission said.
Jun 06, 2020, at 04:01 pm
Dhaka/IBNS: With rising number of COVID-19 positive cases, Bangladesh authority has put Cox’s Bazar Municipality on lockdown and even declared some areas of the district as red zones, media reports said.
Pakistan Covid cases rise to 93,983
Jun 06, 2020, at 02:11 pm
Islamabad/UNI: The number of COVID-19 cases in Pakistan has increased to 93,983 including 1,935 fatalities, according to data updated on Saturday morning by the country's Health Ministry.
IMF asks Pakistan to freeze salaries of govt employees
Jun 06, 2020, at 01:43 pm
Islamabad: The International Monetary Fund has asked cash-strapped Pakistan to freeze salaries of government employees and adhere to the fiscal consolidation path by showing a nominal primary deficit in the new budget, reported The Express Tribune.
Jun 06, 2020, at 12:45 pm
Islamabad: It seems there is no respite for the Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan as the country's Islamabad High Court (IHC) this week turned down a writ petition which challenged the federal cabinet’s decision of not including the community as non-Muslims in the National Commission for Minorities (NCM).
Jun 06, 2020, at 11:56 am
The glaring shortcomings and lacunae in the United States (US) – Taliban Agreement of 29 February have been outlined in several EFSAS publications, including the Commentary of 06-03-2020 titled ‘The US – Taliban Agreement: Vindication of terrorism and betrayal of the common Afghan’.
Afghanistan reports 915 new COVID-19 cases
Jun 05, 2020, at 04:17 pm
Kabul/Xinhua/UNI: Afghanistan on Friday reported 915 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, taking the country's total to 18,969, the country's Ministry of Public Health said.
16 militants killed in predawn airstrike in W. Afghanistan
Jun 05, 2020, at 04:16 pm
Farah, Afghanistan/Xinhua/UNI: Sixteen Taliban militants were killed and five others wounded after Afghan Air Force conducted an airstrike in the western Farah province before dawn, provincial police spokesman confirmed.
Pakistan surpasses China in Covid-19 cases, tally now over 89,000
Jun 05, 2020, at 03:19 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: With a record 4,688 fresh cases reported in 24 hours between Wednesday and Thursday, Pakistan surpassed China, the epicentre of the pandemic Coronavirus, in terms of Covid-19 cases.
COVID-19: Afghanistan reports 915 new cases
Jun 05, 2020, at 01:45 pm
Kabul/Xinhua/UNI: Afghanistan on Friday reported 915 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, taking the country's total to 18,969, the country's Ministry of Public Health said.
Jun 05, 2020, at 10:56 am
Fifty years ago, on May 27, 1970, the journey of a political legend began. Sri Lanka’s political destiny changed when Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa decided to follow his father’s footsteps by entering the political arena, representing the Hambantota district.
Jun 04, 2020, at 12:34 pm
New Delhi: Amid reports of desecration of Buddhist carvings in Gilgit-Baltistan, India's Ministry of External Affairs has called upon Pakistan to "vacate all illegally occupied territories and end the gross violation of political, economic and cultural rights of people living there".
Jun 03, 2020, at 09:23 pm
Quetta: Pakistan is fighting COVID-19 pandemic but even at this hour of crisis the country's minority communities, specially the Hindus, are constantly facing atrocities.
Balochistan witnesses protests demanding justice for Bramsh
Jun 03, 2020, at 08:46 pm
Quetta: Protests erupted in Balochistan to demand justice for four-year-old girl Bramsh who was shot by gunmen at her residence in Dannuk area of Turbat recently.
COVID-19 lockdown badly hits small businessmen in Gilgit Baltistan
Jun 03, 2020, at 08:34 pm
Islamabad: The COVID-19 lockdown in Pakistan has badly hit businessmen in Ghizer district of Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan.
District police chief, 3 officers killed in blast in Afghanistan's Paktia: source
Jun 03, 2020, at 05:10 pm
Kabul/Sputnik/UNI: The police chief of the Said Karam district of Afghanistan's Paktia province, Mohammad Humayun, and three local policemen have been killed in a roadside bomb blast, a source told Sputnik on Wednesday.
Pakistan eagerly awaits intra-Afghan dialogue, thankful for Russia's role - Ambassador
Jun 03, 2020, at 05:07 pm
Moscow/Sputnik/UNI: Valentina Shvartsman - Pakistan is looking forward to the intra-Afghan dialogue following recent positive developments and thanks Russia for its contribution to the settlement, Pakistani Ambassador to Russia Shafqat Ali Khan told Sputnik in an interview.