Explain Hafiz’s JuD, charity wing ban: Court
March 16 : The Lahore High Court on Friday ordered the Pakistan government to explain why the Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) and its charity wing Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) of 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed were banned and their accounts frozen. The order came during a petition filed by Saeed through his lawyer A.K. Dogar […]
Taliban suicide attack near Sharif’s residence kills 10
March 15, 2018 A teenage Taliban suicide bomber attacked a police check-post near the residence of Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif in Lahore, killing 10 people, including six policemen, police said. According to rescue officials, the blast took place Wednesday night close to a police check post, a few kilometers from the palatial […]
Pakistan raises Kashmir at UN, attacks India
United Nations, March 15 : Using a two-pronged tactic in the Human Rights Council, Pakistan has raised the Kashmir issue while speaking on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and then for itself. In its reply during the debate on Wednesday at the UN in Geneva, India rejected the OIC statement saying the […]
Pakistan calls back envoy from India over ‘harassment incidents’
March 15 : Pakistan has called back its High Commissioner in New Delhi, Sohail Mahmood, for consultation to Islamabad over incidents of “harassing” of its Embassy’s staff in the Indian capital, the Foreign Office stated on Thursday. Speaking at his weekly press briefing, Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal said they will hold consultations with […]
UN’s World Happiness Report finds Pakistan happier than India
World Happiness Report 2018 released by UN on Thursday clearly shows that Indians are not so happy but, on the other hand, terror-ravaged neighbour Pakistan seems happier. According to the report, India has dropped from four places in 2017 and has even gone down by 11 places by the present year report. In a list […]
Russia could use chemical weapons in New York, US ambassador warns UN
The United States (US) said on Wednesday that Russia was responsible for a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in England, and urged the United Nations Security Council (UN SC) to hold Moscow accountable. “The United States believes that Russia is responsible for the attack on two people in the United Kingdom, using […]
Mattis pays surprise visit to Kabul
Kabul, March 13 : US Defence Secretary James Mattis arrived in the Afghan capital on Tuesday on a surprise visit to meet Afghan authorities and commanders of NATO and US forces in the country. The visit by the Pentagon chief comes at a time when the Afghan government is actively looking to broker peace talks […]
Explosion strikes Palestinian PM’s convoy in Gaza
JABALIYA,: An explosion struck the convoy of the Palestinian prime minister Tuesday as he was making a rare visit to Gaza, in what his Fatah party called an assassination attempt it blamed on Gaza militants. The explosion went off shortly after the convoy entered Gaza through the Erez crossing with Israel. Palestinian Prime Minister Rami […]
Car bomb kills 3 in southern Yemeni city of Aden
SANAA, Yemen: — A car bomb went off on Tuesday outside a supply post belonging to a Yemeni security force backed by the United Arab Emirates in the southern port city of Aden, killing at least three people, security officials said. The attack injured five other people including two children, they said. The officials said […]
UN blames Facebook for spreading hate speech against Rohingya Muslims
The UN human rights experts have blamed Facebook for playing a key role in spreading hate speech against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Marzuki Darusman, Chairman of the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, said on Monday that the social media platform had played a “determining role” in Myanmar. “As far as the Myanmar […]
