Pakistan likely to miss wheat production target once again
Islamabad: Pakistan might once again miss the target of producing 1.7 million tonnes of wheat in the current fiscal year, media reports said.
IBNS•Mar 12, 2023
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Pakistan: Police officials involved in baton-charging Islamabad Aurat March participants have been suspended
Islamabad: Pakistan's Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has said the police personnel in Islamabad, who were involved in baton-charging the participants of Aurat March, an event held in different cities of Pakistan on International Women's Day, have been suspended.
IBNS•Mar 12, 2023
Afghanistan: Carpet weavers of Badakhshan facing challenges everyday to execute their task
Female carpet weavers of Afghanistan's Badakhshan region are facing regular challenges despite working hard regularly to create their handicrafts due to the lack of a carpet processing center and a suitable market for selling them.
IBNS•Mar 12, 2023
US spy agency sees China will exert more pressure on Taiwan during Xi's third term
Taipei: A report released by a US intelligence community has said Beijing will continue to press Taiwan on unification and try to undercut US influence in the region as Chinese leader Xi Jinping begins his third term as the President of the country.
IBNS•Mar 12, 2023
Tibetans protest in Vienna to mark National Uprising Day
Vienna: Tibetans marked the National Uprising Day in Vienna city of Austria on Friday by protesting in front of Chinese Embassy against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), media reports said on Saturday.
IBNS•Mar 12, 2023
Afghanistan diaspora members protest in Vienna against Taliban atrocities against women, children
Vienna: Austrian city of Vienna recently witnessed Afghanistan diaspora members, including women associated with Afghan diaspora organizations AKIS (Afghanische Kultur, Integration und Solidaritat), staging a protest against the Taliban rulers of the South Asian country.
IBNS•Mar 12, 2023
More than 500 people graduate from Afghanistan's Jihadist school
Kabul: Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, a group that seized power in the South Asian country in 2021, has said more than 500 people have graduated from Jihadist schools in Helmand, Laghman, and Sar-e-Pol provinces.
IBNS•Mar 12, 2023
Expert expresses concerns over imports of $1bn worth pulse by agrarian country like Pakistan
Islamabad: The University of Agriculture of Faisalabad (UAF) Vice-Chancellor (VC) Prof Dr. Iqrar Ahmad Khan has said Pakistan's move of importing pulses worth $1 billion every year is a matter of concern for the country.
IBNS•Mar 12, 2023
School girls poisoned in Iran: Over 100 suspects arrested
Iranian authorities have arrested more than 100 people in connection with the recent suspected poisoning of girl students across the country, local media reports said.
IBNS•Mar 12, 2023
Türkey-Syria quakes: Migration chief hails ‘proud and brave’ citizens of Antakya
The head of the UN migration agency IOM, stood in the middle of the ancient Turkish city of Antakya on Saturday, and called on the international community to “strengthen its efforts” to ensure aid reaches the millions impacted by last month’s deadly earthquakes.
IBNS•Mar 12, 2023
French Senate ratifies pension reform bill despite countrywide protest
Paris: The French Senate on Saturday approved the country's pension reform plan, despite the hundreds of thousands of people who have taken to the streets to protest a significant policy change that could define President Emmanuel Macron's second five-year term.
IBNS•Mar 12, 2023
NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 returns to Earth
Los Angeles: NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft came down safely off the coast of the southeastern U.S. state of Florida on Saturday, NASA said.
IBNS•Mar 12, 2023
One person killed, 8 injured in blast at cultural center in northern Afghanistan - Reports
Kabul: One person was killed, and eight others were critically injured on Saturday in a blast at a cultural center in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif in the Balkh province, Afghan broadcaster Ariana News reported.
IBNS•Mar 11, 2023
UK, France seek to develop new cruise missile by 2030: Joint Declaration
London: London and Paris have flagged their intention to build a new jointly-developed cruise anti-ship missile by 2030, according to a statement released following a France-UK summit on Friday.
IBNS•Mar 11, 2023
Turkey neutralizes interpol red notice terrorist of PKK, says Interior Minister
Ankara: Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Saturday that a top terrorist of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a subject of an Interpol red notice for internationally wanted persons, Hamiyet Yalcinkaya, was neutralized.
IBNS•Mar 11, 2023
Over 4,000 illegal migrants arrived in Italy by sea in last 4 days: Reports
Rome: More than 4,000 undocumented migrants have arrived in Italy via the Mediterranean Sea in the past four days, Italian broadcaster RaiNews24 reported on Saturday.
IBNS•Mar 11, 2023
Pakistan: Three die in Swabi car attack
Swabi: At least three people were killed when gunmen attacked their car in Razaar area of Pakistan on Thursday, media reports said.
IBNS•Mar 11, 2023
Syria: Guterres demands ‘renewed energy’ for peace as war enters 12th year
New York: Support provided to Syria following the recent deadly earthquakes must be directed towards finding a political solution to the civil war, now entering its 12th year, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday.
IBNS•Mar 11, 2023
Ukraine: UN aid trucks reach frontline town of Chasiv Yar
New York: A three-truck convoy of aid from UN agencies reached the Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar on Friday, close to the most intense battle of the war on the eastern front, for the shattered city of Bakhmut.
IBNS•Mar 11, 2023
UN observes first International Day against Islamophobia
New York: The United Nations on Friday commemorated the first-ever International Day to Combat Islamophobia with a special event in the General Assembly Hall, where speakers upheld the need for concrete action in the face of rising hatred, discrimination and violence against Muslims.
IBNS•Mar 11, 2023
Pakistan: Police, student, among four dead in Bannu firing
Four people, including a policeman, died and six others were hurt when unknown assailants opened fire on them near a private school on DI Khan Road in Pakistan on Thursday.
IBNS•Mar 11, 2023
Rights experts ‘deeply disturbed’ by Russian Wagner Group recruitment of prisoners
New York: UN-appointed independent human rights experts on Friday said they were “deeply disturbed” by reports of the systematic recruitment of prisoners across Russia by the private military contractor known as the Wagner Group, which is playing a major role in the fighting in Ukraine.
IBNS•Mar 11, 2023
300,000 flee ongoing violence in DR Congo in February alone: UNHCR
New York: Humanitarians issued an alert on Friday for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where heavy fighting continues to uproot hundreds of thousands of people in east of the country.
IBNS•Mar 11, 2023
Islamabad Police says journalist Abid Mir returned home, brother refuses claim
Balochistan-based journalist and human rights activist Abid Mir has gone missing from Pakistan capital Islamabad.
IBNS•Mar 11, 2023
Afghanistan: Several journalists feared hurt as blast rocks Mazar-e-Sharif
Kabul/Mazar-e-Sharif: Several people are feared to be hurt as a blast rocked PD2 in Afghanistan's Mazar-e-Sharif province on Saturday, media reports said.
IBNS•Mar 11, 2023
Horn of Africa hunger emergency: ‘129,000 looking death in the eyes’
New York: Life-threatening hunger caused by climate shocks, violent insecurity and disease in the Horn of Africa, have left nearly 130,000 people “looking death in the eyes” and nearly 50 million facing crisis levels of food insecurity, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
IBNS•Mar 11, 2023
The oldest learner of Isle of Wight: 101-year-old Madge Brown receives honorary teaching degree
London: 101-year-old Madge Brown and 94-year-old Sheila Gordon, who are both residents of the Isle of Wight, received their honorary degrees, decades after they qualified as teachers.
IBNS•Mar 11, 2023
Germany: Berlin to soon allow women to swim topless in public pools
Berlin: The German city of Berlin will soon allow women to swim topless in public pools, media reports said.
IBNS•Mar 11, 2023
Pakistan: 5 terrorists killed during operations conducted in North and South Waziristan
South Waziristan: At least five terrorists were killed by security forces during intelligence-based operations carried out in Pakistan's North and South Waziristan, media reports said on Saturday.
IBNS•Mar 11, 2023
Pakistan: UN officials call for investigation into Senator Kakar’s death
Islamabad: Four UN special rapporteurs on human rights have urged the Pakistani government to initiate the investigation into “the death in un­clear circumstances of former senator Usman Kakar”.
IBNS•Mar 10, 2023
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