The Baloch community in south-west Pakistan observed the Baloch Missing Persons’ Day on June 8 by holding Twitter spaces and organising social media campaigns. The marginalised ethnic community has been pleading unsuccessfully with the Pakistani Army and the government for releasing its abducted people from torture cells and jails....
India is eyeing to expand its defence industrial partnership with Sri Lanka amid China’s growing presence in the Southern Indian Ocean Region.
The first-ever India-Sri Lanka defence seminar and exhibition was held at Colombo last week to identify newer areas of cooperation whilst ensuring capacity building of Sri Lanka Armed Forces.
In yet another abduct-and-convert case from Pakistan, a Hindu girl from the country’s Sindh province was forcibly converted to Islam and married off, her father said. The 14-year-old girl, identified as Sohana, was kidnapped by her tutor, Akhtar and his accomplices. She was then sent to the Qazi Ahmed...
China's property sector is expected to grapple with "persistent weakness" for years, Goldman Sachs analysts said, adding that its problems would continue to drag on the country's economic growth.
Weaknesses are particularly pronounced in lower-tier cities and private developer financing, they said in a client note, adding that policymakers, who have vowed not to...
President Droupadi Murmu and Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday agreed to set a target for bilateral trade from the present 32 crore Euros to one billion euros by the end of the decade, Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday.
During the business event, both leaders agreed to set...
Srinagar: This month, the Department of Agriculture Production, J&K, will apply for Geographical indications tag to 18 agricultural products from various regions of Jammu and Kashmir, a move aimed at securing distinction and increasing market value.
The GI tag in India is granted by the Geographical Indication Registry under the...
As the economic crisis deepens and debt continues to increase in Pakistan the federal and provincial governments of the country have unanimously decided to shut markets by 8 PM across the country.
The decision has been taken as part of the country's efforts to conserve energy, said Pakistan's Planning Minister...
There is large-scale violation of basic human rights in Sindh, as per Pakistan vernacular media Pahenji Akhbar.
Pahenji Akhbar is a Sindhi newspaper in Pakistan.
Sikandar G. Soomro writes for Pahenji Akhbar that, on one hand, while government and non-government bodies make peoples’ lives hell, on the other hand, criminals and...
Section 144 is in force throughout Pakistan’s Balochistan, especially in the Naseerabad division, to prevent the movement of wheat and flour from the province to other provinces, as per a notification issued by the Government of Balochistan’s Department of Food.
The initiative’s aim is to prevent wheat produced in the...
