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By Special Correspondent Vienna: Security forces in Vienna killed terrorist in a military operation which last for hours, police said. Clearance operation is underway while authorities are expected to hold a press conference shortly. Earlier, multiple gunmen opened fire in central Vienna on Monday night, killing at least three people and wounding many others, including a police officer, government officials said. One of the attackers was also killed, they said. According to Austrian authorities, At least 15 people were wounded in the attack and were being treated in hospitals. The spokesman for the hospital association in Vienna confirmed the same…
By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: The Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) released a new travel advisory, which limited the number of countries from which passengers would be permitted to enter without a coronavirus test. The latest travel advisory released on Friday, effective from 6 November to 31 December, divides foreign travelers into two groups, Geo News said. Passengers in Category A will not need a negative Covid-19 exam, while those in Category B will be allowed to undergo coronavirus screening 96 hours prior to boarding a flight to Pakistan. In the midst of recent re-emergences in a variety of countries,…
By Special Corrspondent Peshawar: Pakistan Tehreek-e – Insaf (PTI) senior leader Shaukat Yousafzai on Friday again offered the opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) an opportunity to hold talks on all issues except transparency before the PDM rally in Peshawar in November. The PTI leader also urged the PDM to postpone its Peshawar rally in the broader public interest, Daily Pakistan said. “Peshawar witnessed a horrific terrorist incident in which innocent children of the madrassa were attacked. The PDM should rethink its Peshawar rally in view of the possible danger of terrorism. The provincial government would not enforce a ban on…
By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan Human Rights Commission (HRCP), Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) and Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) have rejected the investigation report about alleged abduction of Geo News’s reporter. According to the Geo News study, the three organizations say that the team created by Prime Minister Imran consists of workers linked to state agencies who are allegedly guilty of similar past activities. “Last month, the FIA — which was charged with investigating the abduction of Syed — recorded false cases against 49 journalists, some of whom were summoned to investigate unfounded cases against the journalist group.…
By Our Editor Foreign Affairs Izmir, Turkey : A dozen people lost lives, hundreds other received multiple injuries and some believed to be under debris in Turkey and Greece after a powerful earthquake hit the Aegean Sea on Friday afternoon, sending buildings crashing down and triggering what authorities have called a “mini tsunami.”According to Turk officials , fourteen people were killed in coastal areas in Turkey’s west, while two teenagers died on the Greek island of Samos after a wall collapsed on them. Death toll my rise to an alarming extent as a number of people including kids and women…
By Editor Foreign Affairs Islamabad: Pakistan and Afghanistan can not afford to face the risk of lawlessness and instability as such a situation would have disastrous consequences for both countries, said Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa. Chief of Staff General Bajwa said this Wednesday when he met soldiers on the western frontier and visited a hospital in Peshawar and consoled the victims of a bomb blast at a religious seminary in which eight students were killed, Dawn newspaper announced on Thursday. General Bajwa said that Afghan refugees in Pakistan should exercise caution about the inimical forces so as not to…
By Our Staff Reporter Pakistan’s state-run council of clerics, which advises the government on religious matters, gave its approval Wednesday to the building of a new temple for the Hindu minority, and the ruling Islamic law gives them a place of worship. Lal Malhi, a prominent Hindu leader who is also a member of Parliament, applauded the ruling but noted that the Council also recommended that the government not spend public money directly on the construction of private places of worship. The decision of the Council of Islamic Philosophy comes after the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan unexpectedly halted…
By Editor Foreign Affairs Paris: In one of the worst attacks in France, an attacker killed three people at a church in the French city of Nice early on Thursday, police said. Dead included a woman who was allegedly decapitated. Describing the incident as terrorism, city’s mayor confirmed the incident which has shaken France, on Twitter early hours of Thursday. Mayor Christian Estrosi said on Twitter the knife attack had happened in or near the city’s Notre Dame church and that police had detained the attacker. City’s police chief confirmed the incident to Correspondent of Islamabad Telegraph and said police…
By Our Staff Reporter Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government acknowledged on Tuesday that over 145,000 people with disabilities in the province have not received a government grant of Rs3,000 per month for the last three years. Responding to the issue, Social Welfare Minister Dr. Hisham Inamullah Khan told the provincial assembly that his department could not pay a monthly stipend to 145,405 people with different disabilities in three years. He said the department either didn’t get the money or got it too late to disburse at the end of the financial year, Dawn reported. The Minister blamed the Department of…
By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday that his dream was to create a country’s first Information City that would provide top-quality education to students. On Twitter, the Prime Minister posted a video of the master plan of the groundbreaking project that he carried out in Mianwali on Saturday. Renowned architect Tony Ashai, who will carry out the Namal Information City project, thanked the Prime Minister for giving him the chance to be part of the project, Dawn reported. “Thank you PM Imran Khan for giving me the opportunity to be part of your dream. A…