Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he wanted to improve relations with the European Union and was hoping for the same approach from the 27-nation bloc. “We are ready to put our relations back on track”; Erdogan said during a televised meeting with EU ambassadors in Ankara. “We expect our European friends to […]
Amidst countrywide protests, and with political pressure snowballing; Prime Minister Imran Khan once again urged the Shia Hazara community in Balochistan; to bury the bodies of coal miners killed in a gruesome attack in the Mach area over the weekend. This would have just like appeals many other political leaders have issued to the grieving […]
Pakistan has lifted all restrictions on visas for Bangladeshi citizens, a move being seen as an ice breaker in the frosty relations between the two Muslim-majority countries in South Asia. “Pakistan has already removed all restrictions on Pakistani visas for Bangladeshi citizens”; said a statement by the Pakistan High Commission in Bangladesh; after a meeting […]
Traffic disruptions reported in multiple areas of Karachi once again on Thursday as protests and sit-ins against the killing of 11 Shia Hazara miners in Balochistan earlier this week continued for the third day in the metropolis. Protests ongoing since 9 am at 20 locations in the city, according to a statement by the Karachi […]
Despite Prime Minister Imran Khan’s request to move ahead with the final rites of the slain miners and an assurance that he would visit them “very soon”, Balochistan’s Shia Hazara community continued to protest for a fifth straight day on Thursday in Quetta, refusing to bury those who were brutally killed over the weekend in […]
After a chaotic day of protest and violence, Congress has certified Democrats Joe Biden as the next president and Kamala Harris as vice president of the United States, and Trump’s defeat. The action finalizes the 2020 US electoral process and makes clear that Biden will be inaugurated as president on January 20; President Donald Trump’s […]
;While 2020 can termed a hazardous year for most sectors of the economy, it has phenomenal for steering digitalization and giving a boost to e-commerce in Pakistan. Following the Covid-19 outbreak in Pakistan in late February, many businesses began implementing work-from-home models and a majority found it a viable option. Around mid-March, the government announced […]
Years of condemnation on social media and chanting against the nonsensical two-finger test (TFT) at the Aurat March has finally given the women of Pakistan something to celebrate. The Lahore High Court’s (LHC’s) Justice Ayesha A Malik on January 4, 2021 passed a 30-page detailed judgment against the TFT. Declaring it an old practice of […]
Indonesia will begin its nationwide COVID-19 vaccination program on January 13; with President Joko Widodo set to be given the first jab, made by China’s Sinovac Biotech. The mass inoculation program will begin in the capital, Jakarta; Indonesia’s Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin announced on Tuesday; while vaccinations in other regions will follow on January […]
The Lahore High Court ruled on Monday that the two-finger and hymen tests of rape survivors were “illegal and unconstitutional”. The verdict announced by LHC judge Justice Ayesha A Malik in a petition challenging the virginity tests of rape survivors. The 30-page verdict stated that the testing methods were “unscientific having no medical basis; therefore […]
