SAARC FMS FOR JOINT EFFORTS TO OVERCOME COVID-19 IMPACTS
September 25 ,2020
Saarc Foreign Ministers on Thursday emphasised the need to work collectively to overcome the adverse impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic i...
UN AVIATION AGENCY ADVISES PAKISTAN TO SUSPEND ISSUANCE OF...
September 25 ,2020
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has advised Pakistan to undertake “immediate corrective actions” and s...
KHALILZAD HOPEFUL ABOUT TALKS, ADMITS CHALLENGES
September 25 ,2020
US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad, speaking at a virtual event hosted by the US Institute of Pe...
INDIAN FARMERS BLOCK ROADS, RAILWAYS AS PROTESTS MOUNT OVE...
September 25 ,2020
Farmers in India blocked roads and railway tracks on Friday in a protest against new legislation that they say could pave the way for t...
INDIA’S COVID TALLY CROSSES 58-LAKH MARK; COUNTRY RECORDS...
September 25 ,2020
India has recorded 86,052 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours. With this, the country total tally of Covid-19 cases has crossed the...
Pakistan's centuries-old boat village faces dual threat
September 25 ,2020
Under the broiling midday sun, 15-year-old Mohammad Afzal Mallah rows a small wooden boat carrying three people to his village, which f...
Talks on, India tells China not to make unilateral changes
September 25 ,2020
The way ahead to resolve the situation at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh is to not unilaterally change the situation on the...
China, India send in supplies for thousands of border troo...
September 25 ,2020
Supplies are unloaded from an Indian military transport plane at a forward airbase in Leh, in the Ladakh region
The Chinese and In...
MORNING BRIEF, 25 SEPTEMBER
September 25 ,2020
China’s Sri Lanka foothold a dilemma for India
Rajapaksa was unusually active one day last week. He tweeted a message of congr...
UN ROUNDTABLE ON CLIMATE: PM PLACES 5-POINT SUGGESTION TO...
September 25 ,2020
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday placed a five-point recommendation to protect the planet and save people from the adversities...
MOMEN URGES MYANMAR TO INTERACT WITH ROHINGYAS FOR DURABLE...
September 25 ,2020
Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Thursday said it is time for Myanmar to interact with their displaced Rohingya people here in confid...
US DONATES LOCALLY PRODUCED PPE TO SRI LANKA
September 25 ,2020
The United States donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to Sri Lanka as part of the United States’ on-going assistance to S...
PAKISTAN SEEKS CHINESE HELP IN HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT,...
September 25 ,2020
The government has given the go-ahead to the Information Technology and Telecommunication Division that is going to sign a strategic co...
EU ENVOY CALLS ON PAKISTAN TO DIVERSIFY PRODUCTS
September 25 ,2020
European Union Ambassador to Pakistan Androulla Kaminara has stressed the need for product diversity and more value-addition to exploit...
2 pilots killed in military helicopter crash in N. Afghani...
September 25 ,2020
Two Afghan Air Force pilots were killed after a military helicopter crashed in the country's northern restive Baghlan province on Thurs...
Thailand takes first legal action against Facebook, Twitte...
September 25 ,2020
Facebook in August blocked access within Thailand to a group with 1 million members that discusses the country’s king, after th...
China unveils ‘strategic emerging industries’ plan in fres...
September 25 ,2020
Beijing says it will boost investment in high-end manufacturing, including industrial robotics (above), under its new “strategi...
Joe Biden speaks on India. It’s good on the whole.
September 25 ,2020
The Democratic Candidate Joe Biden’s remarks Wednesday on the US-Indian relationship have elements of the good, bad and the ugly....
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Takeaways from the Indian elections: an overview
Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
Ikram Sehgal
Karachi Canvas
Pandemic has sharpened geo-political conflicts
The Corona pandemic that the world is struggling with for the second year now has brought home to us some truths about ourselves. The first thing is that...
