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By Foreign News Desk Kathmandu: Nepal’s Prime Minister, KP Sharma Oli, said on Sunday that he would be returning the Kalapani, Limpiyadhura and Lipulekh Territories from India, in the midst of efforts to restore normality in bilateral relations that raged across a bitter border line. Oli’s remarks during a speech to the National Assembly, or the Upper House, come just days before the visit of the Nepalese Foreign Minister to New Delhi on 14 January – the highest political leader from Nepal to visit India after a strain of bilateral ties. “Kalapani, Limpiyadhura and Lipulekh which are located east of…
By Foreign Desk Each one fo us need to improve their knowledge of the environment and mandate action against climate change, said young environmental activist Greta Thunberg while interacting with Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, and climate change scientists on Sunday during a live-stream event. During a discussion on ‘The Crisis of Climate Feedback Loops’ – self-perpetuating natural warming systems which feed upon themselves to amplify – at a webcast organised by the Mind and Life Institute, she said: “We need to educate ourselves to understand the global processes linked to the climate crisis, to see what’s happening to…
By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: People were silhouetted on vehicles on a dark street during widespread power outages in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. Pakistan’s national power grid experienced a major breakdown late Saturday night, leaving millions of people in darkness, local media reported. One of the worst power outages faced by Pakistan last week was due to poor maintenance and subsequent failure of the national grid protection system. The newspaper reported that senior officials held detailed discussions after many cities and towns across Pakistan plunged into darkness on Saturday night, following a major technical failure in the country’s power…
By National News Desk Islamabad: Despite a steady rise in coronavirus cases, Pakistan launched a five-day polio vaccination campaign on Monday, hoping to eradicate the crippling childhood disease this year. It’s the first anti-polio campaign in 2021. Last August, the previous campaign—during a brief decline in coronavirus deaths and infections—included former Taliban strongholds bordering Afghanistan. This time, polio workers will try to vaccinate 40 million children across Pakistan while, at the same time, taking social distancing measures and other coronavirus precautions, Zulfiqar Babakhel, spokesperson for the polio programme, said. Supplementary vitamin A drops will be given to “help build general…
By National News Desk Bannu: Police in the Bannu district of Pakistan detained an Anti-government rally in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa earlier this week on Friday. Police said, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) attendees have entered the sports complex forcibly and damaged the structure to organise a mega protest, Dawn News reported. The FIR of the case was registered by SHO Imranullah Khattak of the Saddar City Police Station. The rally, which took place on Wednesday, was attended by PDM Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and other senior leaders. In its complaint, the police allege that leaders of different political parties have broken into the…
By National News Desk Dhaka: Activists staged a protest in the capital of Bangladesh on Friday following attack on a Hindu temple in Pakistan. Protesters included Sumon Kumar Roy, president of the Bangladesh Hindu Bar Association; Kapil Krishna Mandal, general secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Bangladesh Branch; and Subir Kanti Saha, Hindu Parishad convenor. These protests come in the context of a temple that was set on fire and vandalised in the Karak district of Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. On December 30, a mob of over a hundred people led by local Muslim clerics destroyed and…
By National News Desk Islamabad: Pakistan’s anti-terrorism police and the country’s intelligence agency raided the hiding places of an outlawed Shia militant group in eastern Punjab province and arrested seven suspects who allegedly wanted to attack the leaders of rival Sunni Muslim groups, the spokesperson said Thursday. The Punjab Counter-Terrorism Department reported that suspects from the outlawed Sipah-e-Mohammad group had been arrested in three separate raids over the previous 24 hours from the cities of Sargodha, Khusab and Sahiwal. It was said that the officers seized the bomb-making material and the weapons that were to be used in sectarian attacks…
National News Desk Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday successfully conducted the test-flight of an indigenous developed Guided Multi Launch Rocket System, capable of delivering conventional warheads, with a maximum range of 140 km. According to Director General of Army, Media Wing, Major General Babar Iftikhar, Fatah-1 weapon system can hit targets up to a range of 140 km. ‘The Weapon System will give Pakistan Army capability of precision target engagement deep in enemy territory,’ said Iftikhar. President Arif Alvi, Prime Minister Imran Khan, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Nadeem Raza and the Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa congratulated the…
By National News Desk Islamabad: Pakistan urged Afghanistan’s neighbours to take action against the terrorists after a soldier was killed while firing across the border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. An Army statement issued in Islamabad on Wednesday night said that terrorists fired a military post from the Afghan side of the border in the Mohmand Tribal District, reports Xinhua News Agency. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri condemned what he called “the use of Afghan soil by terrorists for activities against Pakistan”.”Pakistan calls upon the Government of Afghanistan to take immediate action against the terrorists and terrorist groups finding sanctuaries in…
By Special Correspondent Islamabad: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Evacuee Property Trust Board (EPTB) to begin rebuilding a century-old Hindu temple that was vandalised and set on fire by a mob in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province last week, saying that the attack caused the country ‘international embarrassment.’ The apex court, which took note of the attack and ordered the local authorities to appear before the court on 5 January, also directed the board to present to the court details of all functional and non-functional temples and gurdwaras throughout Pakistan, Dawn newspaper reported. The attack on the temple in the…