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RAWALPINDI, Sep 02 (APP):A major and sepoy of Pakistan Army on Friday embraced martyrdom after fighting gallantly amid an intense exchange of fire during an intelligence based operation conducted by the Security Forces on reported presence of terrorists, in general area Miran Shah, North Waziristan […]

ANKARA Aug 31 (Online): Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will meet counterpart Vladimir Putin in Russia’s resort of Sochi on Sept. 4 to primarily discuss Black Sea grain exports, two Turkish sources told Reuters on Thursday. The two leaders will discuss fallout from the war in […]

DHAKA Aug 31 (Online): Thousands of Bangladeshi protesters have marched demanding information on hundreds of people they say security forces have abducted during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s nearly 15 years in power. Opposition supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its allies joined families […]

RAWALPINDI, Aug 31 (APP): Nine soldiers of Pakistan Army on Thursday embraced martyrdom after a motorcycle-borne suicide bomber exploded him while targeting a military convoy in general area Jani Khel of Bannu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Among the nine soldiers Naib Subedar Sanobar Ali also […]

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Aug 31 (APP): The United States and the United Nations Wednesday stepped up pressure on all government to work towards ending the issue of enforced disappearances and missing persons and bring to justice those responsible for this offence. “We urge those responsible for […]

WASHINGTON Aug 30 (Online): The United States is racing to improve its messaging to the developing world as the BRICS group grows, although few in Washington view an immediate threat from the Chinese-backed club. The BRICS — Brazil, Russia India, China and South Africa — […]

ISLAMABAD, Aug 30 (APP): Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja on Wednesday hinted that the election schedule might be revealed in the next few days, after reducing the timeframe of the ongoing constituency delimitation process. In three separate meetings, chaired by CEC, the ECP […]

Beijing, Aug 30 (AFP/APP): British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said he had raised human rights concerns at “every single one” of his meetings with top Chinese officials, as he made a state visit to Beijing on Wednesday. Cleverly, the first UK foreign minister to visit […]

Tokyo, Aug 23 (AFP/APP): Final preparations to discharge waste water from the crippled Fukushima power plant in Japan were under way Wednesday, its operator said, a day before the scheduled release into the Pacific Ocean. Tokyo had announced on Tuesday that the operation would begin […]

ISLAMABAD, Aug 29 (APP): The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday suspended the imprisonment sentence of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan in the Toshakhana criminal case and ordered to release him on bail. The two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood […]