Pakistan’s diplomatic skills will be tested this week when the European countries will put to vote a resolution against Russia at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). In March, Islamabad abstained from voting against Russia, something that drew a strong reaction from the United States and other western countries. Pakistan joined China, India and many […]
As Pakistan’s inflation, which just hit a 47-year-high in August at over 27 per cent, is on an upward curve, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned against protests and instability in the country. Socio-political pressures are expected to remain high and could also weigh on policy and reform implementation, IMF says As Pakistan’s inflation, […]
A man who lived in complete isolation in; the forests of Vietnam with his father and brother for 41 years had no idea that women exist. He is being dubbed ‘real Tarzan’. Ho Van Lang fled civilization at the end of the Vietnam War in 1972 when; a US bomb killed his mother and two […]
New Zealand has announced that it will withdraw its last remaining troops from Afghanistan by May, concluding a 20-year deployment that was the country’s longest-running one. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday that Afghanistan’s internal peace process represented the best prospect for an enduring political solution in the troubled country; meaning the New Zealand […]
President Biden announced Thursday that the U.S. will no longer support offensive military operations led by Saudi Arabia in Yemen, reversing a policy started by the Obama administration and continued by the Trump administration despite widespread accusations of Saudi war crimes. U.S. President Joe Biden made the announcement during a wide-ranging foreign policy speech; that declared diplomacy […]
India has decided to retain its ban on video app TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps after reviewing responses from the companies on issues such as compliance and privacy, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told local news channel on Tuesday. When it first imposed the ban in June, India’s ministry of electronics […]
Tehran: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) tested long-range missiles and drones against land and sea targets in Iran’s fourth large-scale military show of force in two weeks amid tensions with the United States. The IRGC on Saturday fired long-range ballistic missiles; that traveled 1,800km (1,118 miles) and struck artificial targets in the northern part […]
Indian forces have detained a Chinese soldier on the disputed Himalayan frontier where the world’s two most populous countries fought a deadly battle last year, the military said on Saturday. It is the second detention on the high altitude border since the pitched battles in June in which 20 Indian soldiers and an unknown number […]
The Global Terrorism Index [GTI] 2020 ranks Pakistan as 7th in the world on a list of countries most affected by terrorism in 2019. According to the IEP annual report, Afghanistan remained the worst-affected country by terrorism, while Pakistan is ranked seventh. Seven of the top-10 affected nations come from the Sub-Saharan Africa region. The […]
Azerbaijan says it seized Nagorno-Karabakh’s 2nd-largest city. But Armenian officials were quick to deny the claim that Shusha had been seized. Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said that his country’s forces had taken Shusha, the second-largest city in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. Armenian officials immediately denied the claim. If accurate, this would be a major strategic victory […]