By Press Desk on May 17, 2018
INDIA & PAKISTAN, LATEST NEWS
Since the beginning of 2018, the Indian forces had carried out more than 1000 ceasefire violations along the Line of Control and the Working Boundary, the Pakistan foreign ministrysaid during a weekly media briefing. During the violations the foreign office said 24 innocent civilians were killed while 107 others sustained injuries, the ministry said. It further added […]
By Press Monitoring on May 17, 2018
INDIA & PAKISTAN
Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations while addressing an emergency session of the Organizational of Islamic Countries on Thursday said that the atrocities committed by the Israeli forces are “inhumane”, Express Tribune reported. “She stated that ‘one member state’ (USA) of the UN security council blocked a Kuwaiti-led UN resolution which was […]
By Press Monitoring on May 17, 2018
INDIA & PAKISTAN
Leaders of both Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) along with the newly elected members of the Karnataka Assembly on Thursday held a symbolic protest in front of Gandhi statue in the Vidhana Soudh against Governor Vajubhai Vala. The protesters headed by former Prime Minister H D Devegowda staged protest against the alleged administering the oath […]
By Press Monitoring on May 15, 2018
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Border Security Force (BSF) trooper was killed inn cross-border firing along LoC in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district on Tuesday. “The slain constable has been identified as Devinder Singh. He was injured in the firing ans succumbed to his injuries later,” a BSF official said here. “He was killed after Pakistan rangers started ceasefire violation […]
By Press Monitoring on May 14, 2018
INDIA & PAKISTAN
Iconic writer Saadat Hasan Manto’s fight for freedom of expression and his struggles with the pain of Partition more than half-a-century ago have lent a voice to the various movements of contemporary society reflected at the 71st Cannes film festival. Premiered in Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes festival on Sunday, ‘Manto’ by actor-director […]
By Press Desk on May 13, 2018
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Muzzafarabad: At least 22 people were swept away by fast flowing water in the Jagran Nullah, Neelum Valley in Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PaK), the express tribune newspaper reported. “35 members of the group were crossing the Kundal Shahi bridge in Neelum Valley when it collapsed early Sunday Morning,” the newspaper stated. The newspaper reported that […]
By Press Monitoring on May 13, 2018
INDIA & PAKISTAN
Yousaf Saleem, the visually impaired lawyer, is set to become the first blind judge in Pakistan, according to a report in The News International. Saleem, who was earlier dropped for being blind, has been reconsidered and recommended for the position of the civil judge after intervention by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib […]
By Press Desk on May 11, 2018
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The Pakistan foreign ministry has welcomed the adoption of five resolutions by Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) on Jammu and Kashmir dispute wherein it reaffirmed its support for the UN led plebscite for final settlement of Kashmir dispute. In its wekly breifing, Pakistan foreign ministry stated that OIC unanimously adopted five resolution on Kashmir […]
By Press Monitoring on May 8, 2018
INDIA & PAKISTAN
ISLAMABAD: Expressing concerns over the plight of Kashmir people, Senate Sherry Rehman, on Tuesday said that Kashmir has become the symbol of the lost conscience of the international community, and urged Muslim world, United Nations and the international community to look into it, Express Tribune reported. Senator Rehman was chairing a conference organized by the […]
By Press Monitoring on May 4, 2018
INDIA & PAKISTAN
A day after Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi promised that reforms for the tribal areas will be implemented within the next four weeks, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chief minister stated that the there will be no merger between the tribal and settled areas until next year, the Express Tribune newspaper reported Addressing a news conference at the […]