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China renews support for Sri Lanka

report in Daily FT, Oct 21, 2023—President Wickremesinghe finally meets Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing——-Xi assures China will continue to provide assistance to Sri Lanka without any political strings attached————Wickremesinghe shares vision to set up maritime economic corridor linking China, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and South Africa; In a significant diplomatic encounter, President Xi Jinping yesterday extended China’s unwavering commitment to aiding Sri Lanka in achieving economic stability and progress, devoid of any political agenda.…

Only ophthalmic surgeon attached to Karapitiya hospital leaves country

By Rathindra Kuruwita in The Island, June 13, 2023Those who seek treatment at the eye ward of the Karapitiya hospital have been greatly inconvenienced due to the migration of the consultant ophthalmic surgeon. The doctor, who was the only ophthalmic surgeon attached to the ophthalmic surgical unit, has left the country Chairman of the Professional Forum of Physicians on Medical and Civil Rights, Dr. Chamal Sanjeewa, said that a number of top doctors had left…

Women soldiers protest transfers

By Rasahi Chathurangi Gamage in Ceylone Today, May 19, 2023Vavuniya : Soldiers attached to the 4th Battalion of Women’s Corps engaged in a demonstration on Tuesday (16) against a transfer of a group of women soldiers, from Kokavil to Medawachchiya. There are 129 soldiers working in the Kokavil camp. This group has been demanding that the transfer given to Vavuniya be cancelled and to assign them to another camp nearby. A total of 104 female…

Two killed, seven injured in Khuzdar vehicle blast

by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, March 15th, 2023QUETTA: A powerful magnetic bomb attached to a vehicle killed two of its occupants and injured seven passers-by in Khuzdar town on Tuesday. The deceased included a young son of Dawn’s Khuzdar correspondent Abdul Wahid Shahwani. The other person killed was businessman Haji Amanullah, whose vehicle was targeted. The police said the remote-controlled improvised bomb exploded when the vehicle was near the Agha Sultan Ibrahim Chowk in the…

Police in TTP’s crosshairs

Edit in Business Recorder, Mar 1, 2023During the recent months TTP terrorists have focused on targeting the police. In the latest incident last Saturday in Balochistan’s Khuzdar district, two police officers were martyred and two others critically injured when a bomb attached to their vehicle went off. The same day, a police patrol came under attack in Lakki Marwat city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), causing injuries to four. This has been going on not only…

Two cops martyred in Khuzdar bomb attack

by Abdul Wahid Shahwani in Dawn, February 26th, 2023KHUZDAR: Two police officers lost their lives and another two were critically injured when a magnetic bomb attached to their vehicle exploded in Khuzdar on Saturday. Police officials said the bomb exploded when the vehicle was on patrol near Jhalawan Complex. “It was a magnetic bomb that had been attached to the police vehicle by unidentified people and detonated with a remote control,” Fahad Khosa, Khuzdar’s senior…

Bomb Attack in Balochistan Kills 2 Police Officers, Injures 2 Others

By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press,Feb 26, 2023Two police officers were killed and two others critically injured when a bomb attached to the police vehicle went off in Khuzdar city of Balochistan on Saturday, according to local sources. The explosion took place when the vehicle was patrolling the area near Jhalawan Complex, police officials stated. “Unknown people had placed a magnetic bomb on the police vehicle, and detonated with a remote control, resulting in the…