report in EconomyNext, Nov 20, 2023 at 8:56 pmSri Lanka is among countries ready to join the second phase of China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), with a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries to be also expedited, according to a discussion between President Ranil Wickremesinghe and a top Chinese official. Wickremesinghe told visiting special envoy of the Chinese President, state councillor Shen Yiqin, that the BRI is expected to make a more…
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AFP in The News, August 20, 2023LAHORE: A Muslim cleric is among a dozen people being investigated for using mosque loudspeakers to order protests against alleged blasphemy by Christians which erupted into mob violence in Jaranwala earlier this week, a senior police official said. More than 80 Christian homes and 19 churches were vandalised when hundreds rampaged through a Christian neighbourhood in Jaranwala in Punjab province on Wednesday. Reports that a Quran had been desecrated…
Report in Dawn, August 10th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: A policeman accompanying a polio team was martyred when unidentified miscreants targeted him in Miryan area of Bannu district on Wednesday, an official said. He said lower head constable (LHC) Kamran Khan was on the security duty with polio workers in Akhundkhel area when he came under the attack. The official said Kamran received serious bullet wounds and was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead…….…
by Kelum Bandara in Daily Mirror, July 25, 2023Sri Lanka will import one million eggs per day from five selected chicken farms in Tamil Nadu, India to be sold through the state–run retail chain called ‘Lanka SATHOSA’ primarily in the Western Province to address the shortage, an official said. Chairman of State Engineering Corporation Asiri Walisundara told Daily Mirror that a team of officials from the Department of Animal Production and Health visited these farms…
AP report, 5 Jun 2023Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalised in two separate attacks at their primary schools in northern Afghanistan, a local education official said on Sunday. He said the person who orchestrated the poisoning had a personal grudge but did not elaborate. The attacks took place in Sar-e-Pul province over Saturday and Sunday. It is thought to be the first time this kind of assault has happened since the Taliban swept to…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, December 25th, 2022QUETTA: Five security personnel were martyred and one was injured in separate attacks in Chaman and Turbat on Saturday, police and official sources have confirmed. Official sources said unknown militants attacked a vehicle of Frontier Corps Balochistan (South) in the Dannuk Gogdan area of Turbat in Kech district. The FC personnel engaged the attackers and after a heavy exchange fire, four embraced martyrdom, including a subedar. The martyred…