Pakistan

Indian Navy ships undertake passage exercise with B’desh Navy vessels after visiting Mongla port

11:58 pm March 11, 2021

New Delhi: Two Indian Navy ships undertook passage exercise with two Bangladesh Navy vessels on Thursday, culminating their three-day visit to the Mongla port in the neighbouring country, according to an official statement. Offshore patrol vessel (OPV) Sumedha and corvette Kulish of the Indian Navy visited Mongla from Monday to Wednesday as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of Bangladesh’s independence and to reiterate the historic friendship […]

Report: Blinken offers plan to bolster Afghan peace process

10:56 am March 8, 2021

Washington: Secretary of State Antony Blinken is proposing a series of steps to help jumpstart Afghanistan’s stalled peace process between the government and Taliban, according to a letter from Blinken to Afghanistan’s president Ashra Ghani published Sunday by Afghanistan’s TOLONews. The letter calls for bringing the two sides together for a UN-facilitated conference with foreign ministers and envoys from Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran, India and the United States “to discuss a unified approach […]

US condemns terrorists who seek to infiltrate across LoC

2:15 pm March 5, 2021

Washington: The US has condemned terrorists who seek to infiltrate across the Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan, calling on all the parties to reduce tensions along the frontiers by returning to the 2003 ceasefire commitments between the two countries. The comments by the State Department spokesperson Ned Price followed a joint statement […]

Internet disruption reported in southeast Iran amid unrest

11:14 am February 28, 2021

Tehran: Iran’s impoverished southeast has been experiencing wide disruptions of internet services, experts said, as unrest gripped the remote province after fatal border shootings. Several rights groups reported in a joint statement that authorities shut down the mobile data network in the restive province of Sistan and Baluchestan, calling the disruptions an apparent “tool to conceal” the government’s […]

Restaurant owner’s son dies days after being shot by terrorists in Srinagar

11:00 am February 28, 2021

Srinagar: The son of the owner of popular eatery Krishna Dhaba, who was shot at by terrorists on February 17, died at a hospital here on Sunday, officials said. Akash Mehra was undergoing treatment at the SMHS Hospital for the past 10 days. Mehra succumbed to his injuries in the early hours of Sunday, the officials […]