Sri Lanka taxes will drive people to suicide: Daily
Oct 17, 2022, at 11:42 pm
Colombo: A leading Sri Lankan newspaper on Monday came out strongly against a slew of taxes announced by the government, saying these will force people to commit suicide.
Pakistan: Mastung blast leaves three dead
Oct 17, 2022, at 11:36 pm
Mastung: At least three people died when a vehicle, in which they were travelling, was hit by a landmine in Pakistan's Mastung district on Friday, media reports said on Monday.
Oct 17, 2022, at 11:23 pm
Kabul/Dushanbe: Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon has expressed concerns about the presence and activities of terrorist groups in Afghanistan.
Pakistan might soon be on the brink of a 'debt default': Economist Steve Hanke
Oct 17, 2022, at 09:31 pm
Islamabad: Economist Steve Hanke has warned Pakistan might soon be on the brink of a "debt default".
Body abandonment on Pakistan Hospital roof: Punjab govt orders inquiry
Oct 17, 2022, at 09:25 pm
Lahore: Punjab government has ordered an inquiry into the alleged abandonment of putrefied bodies on the roof of the Nishtar Hospital’s mortuary in Pakistan's Multan city.
Pakistan Army enforces China’s strict zero-COVID restrictions at BRI power plant
Oct 17, 2022, at 06:23 pm
Karachi, Pakistan: Chinese state-owned enterprises operating flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure projects are enforcing Beijing's harsh COVID-19 restrictions across Asian and African countries where they are putting employees in lockdown and even separating them from their family members, media reports said.
Pakistan: Imran Khan's PTI clinches 6 NA seats in by-polls
Oct 17, 2022, at 02:51 pm
Islamabad: Giving a jolt to the ruling coalition, former PM Imran Khan's PTI won six of eight National Assembly seats in the by-polls held on Sunday.
Pakistan: CTD, intelligence agencies gun down five suspected terrorists
Oct 17, 2022, at 02:10 pm
Mastung: During a joint operation conducted by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) and intelligence agencies in Balochistan's Mastung district at least five suspected terrorists were killed on Sunday, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Road mishap leaves two religious scholars dead
Oct 17, 2022, at 01:54 am
Kabul: A road mishap in Afghanistan's Jawzjan-Balkh highway left three people, including two religious scholars, dead, media reports said on Sunday.
Xi Jinping says China will create policies to increase birth rate in face of ageing population
Oct 16, 2022, at 06:54 pm
Worried about its ageing population and its negative impact on the country's economic development, China will come up with policies to boost the birth rate, media reports said.
China Communist Party Congress: Xi defends 'Zero-Covid' policy; condemns 'interference' in Taiwan
Oct 16, 2022, at 03:52 pm
Chinese President Xi Jinping heaped praises on the Communist Party's rule as he opened the five-yearly Congress attended by selected delegates who are likely to affirm his third term as the party's chief, media reports said.
Bangladesh: Six people suffer burn injuries while attempting to repair leakage gas line in Dhaka
Oct 15, 2022, at 10:28 pm
Dhaka: At least six people suffered burn injuries while they attempted to repair a leaking gas line in the Jurain area of Bangladesh capital Dhaka city, media reports said on Saturday.
Oct 15, 2022, at 10:12 pm
The Pakistan government will summon US Ambassador Donald Blome for an official demarche on US President Joe Biden’s remarks on Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Woman commits suicide before Taliban stones her to death for running away from home
Oct 15, 2022, at 08:38 pm
Ghor: A woman in Afghanistan's Ghor province committed suicide before being stoned to death by the Taliban forces for running away from home, an episode showing the persecution faced by women in the South Asian country.
Pakistan: Ex-Balochistan High Court chief justice Muhammad Noor Meskanzai shot dead outside mosque
Oct 15, 2022, at 03:12 pm
Kharan: Unidentified gunmen on Friday shot dead ex-Balochistan High Court chief justice Muhammad Noor Meskanzai outside a mosque in Pakistan's Kharan area, media reports said.
Oct 15, 2022, at 12:30 am
Swat: Former chairman Senate Senator Mian Raza Rabbani has condemned the recent attack on a school van in Swat and asked if the state was waiting for a repeat of APS tragedy.
Pakistan: Peshawar airport watch tower attacked
Oct 15, 2022, at 12:23 am
Peshawar: Unidentified people attacked a watch tower constructed for the security of the funnel area of the Bacha Khan International Airport on Tuesday, media reports said on Friday.
Organic Fertilizer Import: China misleads Sri Lanka
Oct 14, 2022, at 11:52 pm
Colombo: The issue of importing organic fertilizer has dented the relationship between China and Sri Lanka and now the matter has taken a completely new turn.
Pakistan: Remittances touch four-month low figure in September
Oct 14, 2022, at 11:45 pm
Islamabad: Remittances sent home by overseas Pakistanis slowed down to a four-month low at $2.44 billion in September, media reports said on Friday.
Pakistan: Probe ordered after unclaimed bodies found on roof of Nishtar Hospital in Multan
Oct 14, 2022, at 09:18 pm
Multan: The Punjab Chief Minister’s (CM) Adviser Chaudhry Zaman Gujjar has spotted unclaimed bodies which have been left abandoned on the roof of Nishtar Hospital in Multan, media reports said.
Pakistan Finance Minister blurts out F-word after he was heckled at US airport
Oct 14, 2022, at 02:42 pm
Washington: An unidentified man heckled Pakistan's Finance Minister Ishaq Dar at the Dulles International Airport in Washington on Thursday, trigging an angry reaction from Dar who hurled abuses using cusswords.
Chinese people upset over CCP's prolonged zero-Covid policy ahead of 20th National Congress
Oct 14, 2022, at 05:31 am
Beijing: The people of China, who were hoping that the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) strict zero-Covid policy will be relaxed after the 20th National Congress, were upset to know that the policy will continue.
Japanese journalist arrested in Myanmar
Oct 13, 2022, at 12:27 am
Tokyo: Japanese journalist Toru Kubota, who was arrested in Myanmar earlier this year on sedition charges, was sentenced to three more years on Wednesday for the violation of immigration law while entering Myanmar, Japanese media reported, citing sources in the law enforcement.
Domestic violence case: Arrest warrant issued against Bangladeshi cricketer Al-Amin
Oct 12, 2022, at 09:08 pm
Dhaka: A Dhaka court has issued an arrest warrant against Bangladeshi cricketer Al-Amin Hossain for non-appearance in a case related to domestic violence filed by his wife, media reports said on Wednesday.
China: CCP to give third 5-year term to Xi Jinping
Oct 12, 2022, at 08:51 pm
Beijing: China's ruling Communist Party is expected to hand a third five-year term to Xi Jinping, arguably the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong in the 1970s.
UN Development Programme calls for debt relief now for 54 countries
Oct 12, 2022, at 07:34 pm
New York: Fifty-four countries that are home to more than half of the poorest people on the planet need urgent debt relief now, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said in a paper published on Tuesday that calls for rich countries to step up.
Pakistan is now among 54 poor nations urgently need debt relief: UN
Oct 12, 2022, at 12:29 am
Geneva: Cascading global crises have left 54 countries — home to more than half of the world’s poorest people — in dire need of debt relief, the UN said on Tuesday.
Hindu girl abducted in Pakistan
Oct 11, 2022, at 11:16 pm
Sindh: A Hindu girl has been allegedly abducted in Pakistan's Hyderabad town, media reports said on Tuesday.
Afghanistan: Auto rickshaw explosion leaves three hurt
Oct 11, 2022, at 09:32 pm
Kabul: An auto rickshaw explosion in the eastern Afghan province of Laghman left three people hurt on Tuesday.
Afghanistan: Taliban releases manager of a local media outlet
Oct 11, 2022, at 03:00 pm
Kabul: Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC) has said The Taliban Directorate of Intelligence prison released the former owner and editor of local station Radio Aftab after he was kept in four months of detention in Afghanistan.