By Our Special Correspondent ISLAMABAD : National Highway Council (NHC) approved the most controvertial project of the construction of proposed multi story residential complex at junction of M1 and M2 loop /interchange in Islamabad. The meeting of the NHC was held under the chairmanship of Federal Minister of Communication, Asad […]
Year: 2023
ISLAMABAD -UNS- A special plane carrying the body of Pervez Musharraf, former chief of army staff and president – who breathed his last on Sunday in Dubai – touched down at the Karachi airport. Musharraf’s wife Sehba Musharraf, son, and daughter accompanied the coffin. His funeral will be held at […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS: The government and people of Pakistan have received the news of a massive earthquake in Southern Türkiye earlier today, with deep sorrow and anguish. Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif spoke to the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to extend our heartfelt condolences to the brotherly Turkish people on […]
ANKARA -UNS: A huge earthquake killed more than 2,200 people and injured thousands more on Monday in Turkiye and northwest Syria, flattening apartment blocks and heaping more destruction on Syrian cities already devastated by years of war. The magnitude 7.8 quake, which hit before sunrise in bitter winter weather, was […]
ISLAMABAD: The Chairperson of Peace and Culture Organisation, Mushaal Hussein Mullick said that the supremacist Hindutva regime crossed all limits of state-sponsored terrorism and war crimes to stifle the powerful dissenting voices in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). Mushaal, wife of jailed Kashmiri Hurriyat leader Muhammad Yasin […]
WASHINGTON-UNS: Chairman, One-Man Commission on Minorities Rights, Dr Muhammad Shoaib Suddle in recognition of Convener, World Minorities Alliance J. Salik’s exceptional services to the cause of minorities decided to recommend the government to award him the top civil award Hilal-e-Pakistan and nominate him for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. In […]
KABUL -UNS : An envoy for Qatar’s foreign affairs minister visited the Afghan capital on Sunday and met the Taliban administration’s acting foreign minister, according to an Afghan foreign ministry statement. The visit comes after the Taliban administration placed restrictions on women’s education and NGO work, which Qatar labelled “deeply […]
WASHIGTON: Former Federal Minister for Population Welfare and Convener, World Minorities Alliance (WMA), Julius Salik also J. Salik on Sunday demanded the United Nations to disseminate and translate it’s documents and publications in Urdu and declare it as its seventh official language and allow designated minorities’ observers at its General […]
DUBAI -NS: Former president retired General Pervez Musharraf passed away in Dubai on Sunday after a prolonged battle with the rare disease amyloidosis. He was 79. Shazia Siraj, spokesperson for Pakistan’s consulate in Dubai and embassy in Abu Dhabi confirmed the news. “I can confirm that he passed away this […]
JAMES M. DORSEY A recent survey of Iranian public opinion suggests that the lack of confidence in a Middle Eastern regime is starkest in Iran, although crisis-wracked Lebanon, Egypt, or Syria may compete. Surveyed in late December by the Netherlands-based Gamaan Institute, an overwhelming majority of the 158,000 respondents in […]
