Thimphu , March 16: Bhutan will soon use an online system called SMART Connect to monitor forest coverage, wildlife population and illegal poaching and logging activities. The system will be used by the World Wildlife Fund country office and the Department of Forest and Park Services. Foresters and officials from the...
Kabul: Taliban has shut down shops that were accepting Pakistani rupees as the mode of payment in Uruzgan province, reported Tolo News.   Officials of the committee for Afghani Promotion said that the usage of foreign currency has been banned in this province and will deal legally with violators.   “We will keep...
Addressing a large gathering on banks of Indus River in Leh, the 14th Dalai Lama on Tuesday expressed hope that Ladakhis would be able to visit Lhasa once again. "Times are changing, and that a time would come when Ladakhis would be able to visit Lhasa again,” the Tibetan...
Jammu: A captured terrorist undergoing treatment at a facility of the Indian Army in Kashmir said he had been sent on a suicide mission by a colonel of the Pakistani army. The terrorist, identified as Tabarak Hussain by news agency ANI, said he had come along with four-five other...
A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will meet Sri Lanka’s president for talks to finalise a bailout package, including restructuring debt of about $29bn, amid the nation’s worst financial crisis in more than 70 years. The second such IMF visit in three months comes on Wednesday as the...
Islamabad , August 24 (ANI): An Islamabad court on Wednesday rejected a request by the capital police for yet another extension of seven days in the physical remand of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shahbaz Gill, who was arrested in a sedition case filed. The judgment came as the two-day physical...
Islamabad, August 22: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday blamed the country’s military establishment for the ongoing crackdown on the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) that has escalated tensions in the country and raised the risk of large-scale unrest. “On May 25, when the police used violence against us, I...