report inThe News online, Dec 21, 2023UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan on Wednesday called upon the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to conduct a probe to find out who provided advanced military weapons to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). At the UNSC’s UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) briefing on Afghanistan, the Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the UN, Ambassador Munir Akram, said Pakistan faced a major threat from the terrorist group TTP and its affiliates for their…
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By Mitra Majeedy in TOLOnews Online, Dec 10, 2023 at 7:43 PMThe US special envoy for Afghan human rights and women, Rina Amiri, called for investment in the female education sector in Afghanistan, in a bid to provide the way for a modern and “inclusive Afghanistan.” Speaking at a session at the Doha Forum, Amiri said: “It is a moral imperative and it is a strategic imperative. If we want Afghanistan to continue on the…
report in Economy Next, Nov 24, 2023 at 11:37 pmSri Lanka has already started “right sizing” its strong military gradually to 150,000 by 2030 without any impact on national security while strengthening them with modern technology, State Defence Minister Minister Premitha Bandara Tennakoon said. He said the government is in the process of reducing the army to 100,000, navy to 30,000, and air force to 20,000 by 2030 from the current numbers, which he did…
report in Dawn, October 30th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Militants equipped with modern weapons attacked Hathala police station in Kulachi tehsil of Dera Ismail Khan district on Sunday night. However, police repulsed the attack. Around 50 militants equipped with sophisticated weapons, hand grenades and rocket launchers attacked the police station, said officials. They said that police repulsed the attack and militants managed to escape after heavy exchange of heavy fire with the law-enforcers. “No casualties are…
by Ismail Khan in Dawn, October 5th, 2023PESHAWAR: With a looming deadline to repatriate more than a million undocumented Afghans and other foreigners by the end of this month, federal and provincial authorities are scrambling to put together a viable plan to undertake what could safely be described as one of the biggest deportation operations in modern times. Following up on the recommendations of the apex committee of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sept 27, the federal…
by Ali Asif Shawon in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 20, 2023Cox’s Bazar: Bangladesh is set to operationalize its very first submarine base with modern basin facilities for the Navy at Pekua of Cox’s Bazar to provide safe jetty facilities to submarines and warships at the harbour. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the submarine base at “BNS Sheikh Hasina” virtually from her official residence, Ganabhaban in the morning. Built at a cost of $1.21 billion, the…