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Officials say more than 100 Pakistanis were among those killed when a fishing boat overloaded with migrants capsized in deep Mediterranean waters. The death toll of the disaster is expected to rise.
Poverty drove young men from small Kashmir town to board ill-fated fishing trawler, say familiesThe last time Mohammed Yousaf talked to his son, Sajid Yousaf, on 8 June, the son was waiting anxiously in Libya for smugglers to pack him and hundreds of o…
Islamabad: As the ninth review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program still remains pending, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board has issued meetings scheduled till June 29 without Pakistan, Pakistan-based ARY news reported.Pakistan has barely enough currency reserves to cover imports for one month. It was hoping to have 1.1 billion USD of the funds released in November –
Islamabad: The government of Pakistan is hailing the country’s first Russian oil imports as a game-changer for the nation’s faltering economy, but analysts emphasise that it is still too early to estimate how much the secret deal will contribute, reported Nikkei Asia.On Sunday, a ship docked at the port of Russian oil imports with the equivalent of around 3,30,000 barrels of Russian crude oil.
Islamabad: Four police personnel and two soldiers of the security forces were injured in different attacks by unidentified armed men in Bara tehsil of Pakistan’s Khyber district on Sunday, Pakistan-based The News International reported citing local and official sources.The gunmen attacked the police post in the Sarki Kamar area in Bar Qambarkhel on Saturday. Four police personnel identified as
Tracking data indicates two vessels stood by or circled around stationary refugee boat for several hoursTracking data suggests an overcrowded fishing boat that sank off the Greek coast last week with the feared loss of hundreds of lives had not moved f…
Michael Kugelman explores both the international and regional dynamics of contemporary South Asian politics with the team, focussing on Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.
Pakistani authorities have arrested 10 alleged human traffickers after it emerged that many of the migrants and refugees who drowned off Greece’s coast were from the South Asian nation. Islamabad has vowed the traffickers would be “severely punished.”
Srinagar: Union Home Minister Amit Shah today targeted the Congress
over corruption, alleging scams worth Rs 12 lakh crore had taken place under
the party-led UPA Government at the Centre.
Whereas, the current Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is
functioning in a transparent manner and even its opponents cannot point a
finger of corruption at it, Shah said
The Indian Army’s Romeo Force and the Poonch Police’s SOG worked together to successfully neutralise 61 explosives, including 11 live bombs, in Jammu and Kashmir’s Seri Chowana villageThe Indian Army’s Romeo Force and the Poonch Police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) successfully destroyed 61 explosives, including 11 live bombs, in Seri Chowana village, Jammu and Kashmir, in a joint operation.