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ISLAMABAD, May 28 (APP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Friday announced massive saving of Rs 28 billion on buying of petrol for 14 million poor families to protect them from effects of inflation. In his address to the nation, he said every family registered with the […]

Honiara, May 26 (AFP/APP): Western powers sounded the alarm Thursday over leaked plans to dramatically expand China’s security and economic reach in the South Pacific, in what one regional leader called a thinly veiled effort to lock island states into “Beijing’s orbit”. If approved by […]

ABU DHABI – May 24 (ONLINE) Two people were killed and 120 injured in a gas cylinder explosion in a restaurant in the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi, police said. Initial reports “showed that 64 people sustained minor injuries, 56 others were moderately wounded, […]

Uvalde, United States, May 25 (AFP/APP): A teenage gunman killed at least 19 young children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, prompting a furious President Joe Biden to denounce the US gun lobby and vow to end the nation’s cycle […]

PTI Chairman Imran Khan plans to carry on with the party’s “Azadi March” (Independence March) despite the government’s decision earlier today to stop the long march towards Islamabad. Khan, while addressing a press conference in Peshawar, said he will lead the “biggest procession in Pakistan’s […]

ISLAMABAD, May 24 (APP):The Supreme Court on Tuesday constituted a three-member bench to hear the Islamabad High Court Bar Association (IHCBA) petition against the government’s decision to block roads ahead of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI’s) ‘Azadi March’. The three-member bench comprising Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan, […]

UNITED NATIONS, May 24 (APP): The monkeypox outbreak that has been reported in 16 countries and several regions of the world can still be contained and the overall risk of transmission is low, the UN health agency, which is based in Geneva, said Tuesday. “What […]

Beijing, May 23 (AFP/APP): Beijing on Monday said it was ready to defend its national interests over Taiwan, in a rebuke to US President Joe Biden’s vow to protect the island from any invasion by China. China’s Communist Party has never controlled self-ruled Taiwan but […]

Islamabad (PNI) PTI Chairman Imran Khan announced on Sunday that his “Azadi March”, his much awaited long march, will arrive in Islamabad on May 25 and asked his workers to meet him at 3pm at the federal capital’s Srinagar Highway. Khan made the announcement while […]

Bezliudivka, Ukraine, May 22 (AFP/APP): A sea of Ukrainian flags mark the graves of the fallen at Kharkiv’s cemetery N°18. The cemetery, at Bezliudivka, on the outskirts of Ukraine’s second city, has had a military section for several years. It has been burying Ukrainian soldiers […]