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Tokyo shares fall on US stimulus reduction speculation

Posted on August 19, 2021

Tokyo, Aug 19 (AFP/APP):Tokyo shares ended lower on Thursday after minutes from the US Federal Reserve’s July meeting hinted it may scale back stimulus this year, pushing down Wall Street shares. The Nikkei 225 index dropped 1.10 percent, or 304.74 points, to 27,281.17 yen, while […]

Russia brands independent monitor ‘foreign agent’ ahead of election

Posted on August 18, 2021

Moscow, Aug 18 (AFP/APP):Russia on Wednesday declared an independent election monitor a “foreign agent”, one month before a parliamentary election in which President Putin’s unpopular United Russia party is dexpected to struggle. Created in 2000, Golos had notably denounced election rigging in the 2011 parliamentary […]

Ziaullah reviews security measures of 10th procession of Muharram-ul-Haram in Quetta

Posted on August 18, 2021

QUETTA, Aug 18 (APP):Balochistan Minister for Home Mir Ziaullah Langu on Wednesday presided over meeting to review security measures of 10th procession of Muharram-ul-Haram across the province including provincial capital. The meeting was attended by Commissioner Quetta Asfandyar Kakar, DIG Quetta Azhar Ikram, DIG North […]

Shibli stresses for modern technology to end rigging in next elections

Posted on August 18, 2021

ISLAMABAD, Aug 18 (APP):Minister for Science and Technology, Shibli Faraz on Wednesday stressed the need for introducing modern technology to end rigging in next elections. The Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf’s (PTI), government is determined to implement the electronic voting system in the next general elections, […]

Pak evacuates 1,100 personnel from Kabul:Fawad

Posted on August 18, 2021

ISLAMABAD, Aug 18 (APP):Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Wednesday said Pakistan has so far evacuated some 1,100 personnel from Kabul, Afghanistan. In a tweet, he said Pakistan’s commendable evacuation operation was continuing. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has once again resumed […]

More than 200 mourning processions held amid tight security at Parachinar

Posted on August 18, 2021

PESHAWAR, Aug 18 (APP):On the night of Ashura, more than 200 mourning processions were taken out from different Imambargahs at Parachinar, district Kurrum amid coherent security measures. The mourners observed the day with devotion and religious zeal. They paid tribute to Hazrat Imam Hussain (Razi-Allah-Anho) […]

9th Muharram processions culminate peacefully in federal capital

Posted on August 18, 2021

ISLAMABAD, Aug 18 (APP):The 9th Muharram was commemorated in the federal capital on Wednesday with much ostentation and tight security as mourning processions were culminated peacefully after passing through from traditional routes. The processions carrying taziyas or the colorful replicas of Hazrat Imam Hussein’s (RA) […]

Iran says ready to work with Russia, China on Afghanistan ‘peace’

Posted on August 18, 2021

Tehran, Aug 18 (AFP/APP):Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday told his Russian and Chinese counterparts that Tehran is ready to cooperate with the two countries to establish “stability and peace” in Afghanistan. The Taliban have capped a staggeringly fast rout of Afghanistan’s major cities in […]

US paper calls ‘discriminatory’ India’s move to prioritize Afghan Hindus, Sikhs for emergency visas

Posted on August 18, 2021

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 18 (APP):A leading American newspaper has called attention to India’s decision to prioritize visa process for Hindus and Sikhs from Afghanistan, saying the move drew comparisons to a contentious 2019 citizenship law, enacted under Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, that discriminates […]

Taliban meet with Karzai and Abdullah, Ghani says he backs talks

Posted on August 18, 2021

Kabul, Aug 18 (AFP/APP):The Taliban, who have pledged a different sort of rule in Afghanistan from their brutal regime two decades ago, met with former president Hamid Karzai and senior official Abdullah Abdullah Wednesday as they seek to form a government. The talks came as […]

News Desk

Tokyo shares fall on US stimulus reduction speculation

Russia brands independent monitor ‘foreign agent’ ahead of election

Ziaullah reviews security measures of 10th procession of Muharram-ul-Haram in Quetta

Shibli stresses for modern technology to end rigging in next elections

Pak evacuates 1,100 personnel from Kabul:Fawad

More than 200 mourning processions held amid tight security at Parachinar

9th Muharram processions culminate peacefully in federal capital

Iran says ready to work with Russia, China on Afghanistan ‘peace’

US paper calls ‘discriminatory’ India’s move to prioritize Afghan Hindus, Sikhs for emergency visas

Taliban meet with Karzai and Abdullah, Ghani says he backs talks

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