ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey looks positively on Finland’s application for NATO membership, but does not support Sweden’s bid, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. “Our position on Finland is positive, but it is not positive on Sweden,” Erdogan said of their NATO applications in a speech to his AK […]
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ISLAMABAD -UNS: Turkmanistan declared 2023 as a “International Year of Dialogue as a Guarantee of Peace”.This was announced on January 27, 2023, in a official ceremony which was held at the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. According to the Press Release issued here […]
OVER 60,000 Sikhs voted for Khalistan Referendum in Melbourne sending a strong show of defiance to the Indian government’s attempts to stop the local Sikhs from taking part in the democratic voting system to raise demand for the creation of Khalistan in Indian Punjab. The independent observer Sikhs For Justice, […]
KABUL: More than 160 people have died from the cold in Afghanistan this month in the worst winter in more than a decade, authorities said on Thursday, as residents described being unable to afford fuel to heat homes in temperatures well below freezing. “162 people have died due to cold […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS : Pakistan strongly condemns the despicable act of desecration of the Holy Quran in the Netherlands on 22 January 2023. It is undoubtedly a provocative Islamophobic hate crime committed under the guise of freedom of expression. Such offensive acts deeply hurt the feelings of 1.5 billlion Muslims around […]
Arab states boycotted a meeting hosted by Libya’s unity government on Sunday, with just five of the Arab League’s 22 members sending their top diplomats and even the bloc’s secretary general staying away. The snub underlines Arab divisions over the Tripoli-based government, whose legitimacy is contested by a rival administration […]
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Saturday appreciated the rule of law in Britain after UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was fined for failing to wear a seat belt while he filmed a social media clip in the back seat of a moving car. Sunak, […]
JENIN (AFP) – Over two Palestinians martyred by Israeli troops on Thursday in the flash point West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian health ministry said, with the army saying they responded after being fired upon. The ministry said Jawad Farid Bawaqna was killed by a bullet to the chest, […]
BY Diplomatic Correspondent ISLAMABAD : On the night of January 19-20, 1990, as a result of military aggression of the units of the Soviet Army and special forces, as well as contingents of internal troops against Azerbaijan, civilians, including children, women, and elderly were massacred in the cities of Baku, […]
JAMES M. DORSEY Moderate Muslims and militant Hindu nationalists are strange bedfellows at the best of times, particularly when they come together to reshape Hindu-Muslim relations in troubled India. Yet, that is what Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama and India’s Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) seek to achieve. Nahdlatul Ulama, arguably the world’s […]
