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ISLAMABAD TELEGRAPH REPORTISLAMABAD: The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) announced on Friday that all Pakistani pilots working for Vietnamese airlines have valid licences.It said the Pakistani Embassy in HàNội sent a diplomatic note on July 17 regarding the credentials of Pakistani pilots flying for local carriers.The embassy also released a list of pilots with licences recognised by the Pakistani Government as authentic and valid. It affirmed that all CPL/ATPL licences administered by the Pakistani aviation regulator are legitimate and valid. There were no fake licences, as mentioned by the media.Earlier, following Pakistani authorities’ revelation that more than 250 pilots…

BY MEHR YASINISLAMABAD: In a move which has sent shocking waves across the globe, locals in Pakistan smashed another a Budha Statue into pieces.A local police official in Mardan district in Pakistan’s Khyber Paktoonkhaw province confirmed the incident to ‘Islamabad Telegraph’ on Saturday. However, a case was registered in local police station following the incident and police arrested all those involved in smashing centuries old statue of Budha. A Peshawar based archeologist also confirmed that that thousand years old Buddha statue worth around $20 million in International market was discovered during a house construction near Takht Bhai in Mardan district…

By Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan provided second consular access to Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav at the Indian request today. First consular access under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR) 1963 was earlier provided by Pakistan on 2 September 2019. The mother and wife of Commander Jadhav were also allowed to meet him on 25 December 2017. Two consular officers of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad were provided unimpeded and uninterrupted consular access to Commander Jadhav at 1500 hours. Commander Jadhav is in Pakistan’s custody following his arrest from Balochistan in a counter-intelligence operation on 3 March 2016. During investigation,…

MEHR YASIN ISLAMABAD: On July. 6, a body was found in Islamabad’s posh sector of E-11, with bullet wounds to the head, chest, abdomen and shoulders. The victim was Beenish, a transgender woman. She was known to be among the more than two dozen transgender Pakistanis’ killed this year.A week later, un-identified people armed with automatic weapons stormed a community house of transgender persons in Garrison city of Rawalpindi and shot dead one of the transgender woman and injured two another. Assailants fled from the scene unhurt. Police teams of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, both, have not yet able to trace…

Press ReleaseDushanbe: The Embassy of Pakistan in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, organized an event Yesterday on Monday to commemorate the Kashmiri Martyrs Day on the occasion of 89th Youm Shuhada -e- Kashmir ( Kashmir Martyred Day).The day marked 89th anniversary of the 22 Kashmiri martyrs who were killed by the ‘Dogra forces’ on 13 July 1931 in Srinagar. According to a press note issued from Pakistan’s Embassy in Tajikistan, event started with the recitation from the Holy Quran, followed by message of the Prime Minister read by the Deputy Head of Mission, Mr. Shahid Ali Seehar.In his speech, Ambassador Imran Haider while…

MEHR YASINLAHORE: All eyes are set on August 7, 2020 as a Civil Court in Pakistan’s Lahore city will decide either to hold the United States of America responsible for unchecked spread of Covid-19 or not.Last week, Civil court in Lahore issued notices to the US embassy in Islamabad, the US counsel general Lahore and Pakistan’s foreign ministry on a USD 20 billion damages suit filed by Raza Ali, a coronavirus infected citizen of Pakistan based in Lahore.In a petition he filed in the civil Court last Wednesday through Advocate Syed Zille Hussain, Ali Raza alleged the US was responsible…

By Giulio Meotti[First published by the Gatestone Institute]”The city that Constantine had protected for more than a thousand years… has now undergone, in this unfortunate year, the destruction by the Turks. I suffer at the thought that the temple of Saint Sophia, famous all over the world, has been destroyed or desecrated. This is a second death for Homer, a second passing for Plato”. These words by the great humanist, Enea Silvio Piccolomini, who became Pope Pius II, were written five centuries ago, after the great Christian city of Constantinople fell to the Ottomans.Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan…

By Raymond Ibrahim[First published by the Gatestone]”[W]e are neglecting to properly address the religious and racist aspects of grooming gang crimes…. It’s telling them that it’s OK to hate white people.” — Sarah Champion, British Labour MP, YorkshireLive, April 29, 2020.Advice against alcohol, drugs, and reckless behavior would be more compelling if it were not made under duress.Even when it comes to rape, then, if the victim is white and the rapist is not, she is no victim at all; worse, she is a “racist” and “hater” who, if anything, apparently deserves what she got and more. “Blame the victim”…

By Khaled Abu Toameh [ First published by The Gatestone Institute]Last year, Palestinian activists took to the streets of the Gaza Strip to protest economic hardship and demand that Hamas provide solutions for soaring unemployment and poverty rates. The protests, held under the banner “We want to live!,” were brutally suppressed by Hamas’s security forces and militiamen.Such calls by human rights organizations are dismissed out of hand by Hamas leaders, whose only concern is the iron grip of their power.Hamas, after 13 years of criminal negligence, rejects responsibility for the wellbeing of its people. Astoundingly, it continues to succeed in…

BY MEHR YASIN ISLAMABAD: In a major embarrassment Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government, The United States of America has banned Pakistan’s national flag carries from operating flights to and from United States. The United States transport authority has revoked the permission granted to the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to operate a number of special direct flights to the US.As per reports, the authorisation was revoked “due to recent events identified by the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority that are of serious concern to aviation safety, specifically matters pertaining to the proper certification of certain Pakistani pilots”.PIA spokesperson Abdullah Khan confirmed that…