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NASA sending four astronauts to ISS on Sunday

Posted on October 28, 2021

Washington, Oct 27 (AFP/APP):NASA is teaming up with SpaceX once more to send four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday, including three first-timers. The crew of mission “Crew-3” will spend six months on the orbital outpost, conducting research in areas including material sciences, […]

Football’s five-substitutes option to be made permanent

Posted on October 28, 2021

London, Oct 27 (AFP/APP):Football competitions can decide to make the originally temporary five-substitutes rule permanent, the sport’s rule-making body IFAB recommended on Wednesday. “FAP-TAP (football and technical advisory panels) today recommended that competitions should be able to decide on increasing the number of substitutes according […]

IMF chief asks for continued debt relief as pandemic aid winds down

Posted on October 28, 2021

Washington, Oct 27 (AFP/APP):With a pandemic debt suspension program in its final weeks, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Wednesday encouraged creditors in more advanced nations to continue offering aid to poor countries. Early in the pandemic, G20 nations agreed to the Debt Service Suspension […]

Pakistan, Tajikistan FMs discuss bilateral ties, Afghanistan

Posted on October 28, 2021

ISLAMABAD, Oct 28 (APP):Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi met Foreign Minister of Tajikistan Sirojiddin Muhriddin in Tehran on Wednesday and had comprehensive exchange of views on bilateral cooperation and the situation in Afghanistan. Recalling recent high-level exchanges including the Prime Minister’s visit to Dushanbe […]

Technical university to be established in Faisalabad: CM

Posted on October 28, 2021

LAHORE, Oct 27 (APP):Members of national and provincial assemblies from Faisalabad on Wednesday called on Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar. State Minister for Information Farrukh Habib, provincial ministers, parliamentarians and SACM Hasaan Khawar were also present. Talking on this occasion, the Chief Minister said […]

Canada’s new environment minister says no ‘secret agenda’ on oil

Posted on October 28, 2021

Ottawa, Oct 27 (AFP/APP):Canada’s new activist-turned-environment minister on Wednesday sought to reassure the nation’s oil sector — the fourth largest producer in the world — that he has no “secret agenda,” following pushback over his appointment. Steven Guilbeault, a prominent former climate activist tapped by […]

People’s lives, property to be protected at all costs: Punjab IGP

Posted on October 28, 2021

LAHORE, Oct. 27 (APP):Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) Rao Sardar Ali Khan said on Wednesday that Punjab Police would fulfill its prime responsibility of ensuring protection to the lives and property of people of the province at all costs. The IGP was addressing a […]

Pakistan seeks explanation on the reported killing of Pakistani prisoner in an incident in IIOJK

Posted on October 28, 2021

ISLAMABAD, Oct 27 (APP):The Indian Charge d’Affaires was summoned to the Foreign Office on Wednesday and a strong protest was lodged on the reported killing of a Pakistani civilian prisoner Zia Mustafa, in an incident involving Indian occupation forces in Poonch sector of Indian Illegally […]

Kashmir Black Day observed to condemn 74 years of India’s illegal occupation

Posted on October 28, 2021

ISLAMABAD, Oct 27 (APP):The Kashmir Black Day was observed on Wednesday across the country and abroad to condemn the 74 years of Indian illegal occupation of parts of Jammu and Kashmir, and to reaffirm Pakistan’s unwavering support for the just struggle of the Kashmiri people. […]

Security tightens grip in coup-hit Sudan as global pressure bites

Posted on October 28, 2021

Khartoum, Oct 27 (AFP/APP):Sudanese security forces Wednesday made sweeping arrests of protesters who kept up demonstrations in the capital and other cities against this week’s military coup, while the international community ramped up punitive measures. The World Bank froze aid and the African Union suspended […]

News Desk

NASA sending four astronauts to ISS on Sunday

Football’s five-substitutes option to be made permanent

IMF chief asks for continued debt relief as pandemic aid winds down

Pakistan, Tajikistan FMs discuss bilateral ties, Afghanistan

Technical university to be established in Faisalabad: CM

Canada’s new environment minister says no ‘secret agenda’ on oil

People’s lives, property to be protected at all costs: Punjab IGP

Pakistan seeks explanation on the reported killing of Pakistani prisoner in an incident in IIOJK

Kashmir Black Day observed to condemn 74 years of India’s illegal occupation

Security tightens grip in coup-hit Sudan as global pressure bites

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