Islamabad — A high court in Pakistan on Friday barred authorities from forcibly deporting Afghan musicians and singers unless their asylum cases are resolved within the next two months. The decision comes as a crackdown on thousands of refugees from neighboring Afghanistan who either do not have legal permits to stay in the country or … Read more
India has appointed rocket scientist V Narayanan as the new chief of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), the government on Tuesday said, an important role as India works to become a space superpower. Narayanan S. He succeeds Somnath, who became chair in 2022, and has been credited with making the 54-year-old space agency more … Read more
Islamabad — At least four people were killed and dozens of others injured in a bomb blast targeting civilian and security forces vehicles, police in southwestern Pakistan said Saturday. The deadly attack took place in the town of Turbat in the sparsely populated Balochistan province, which is famous for its abundant natural resources. Most of … Read more
India has shown no signs of complying with Bangladesh’s formal request from New Delhi to extradite former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Hasina fled to India earlier this year amid massive student-led protests against her rule. Bangladesh’s foreign affairs adviser Mohammad Tauheed Hossain told local reporters earlier this week that the country’s interim government had informed … Read more
Afghanistan’s Taliban defense ministry said on Saturday that its forces attacked several locations inside Pakistan in response to last week’s deadly air strikes. Pakistan last Tuesday launched an operation to destroy a training facility and kill insurgents in Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province. Dozens of people were killed in the attacks, mostly women and children. Social … Read more
Moscow — Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart on Saturday after an Azerbaijani airliner crashed in Kazakhstan in what he called a “tragic incident”, killing 38 people. The Kremlin said in a statement that a Ukrainian drone strike on Wednesday caused firing from air defense systems near Grozny, the regional capital of … Read more
Kolkata, India – Sitting in front of dilapidated huts and piles of ashes in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, 80-year-old Rohingya refugee Amina Khatun began to cry as she talked about her 60-year-old son, Abul Hayer. “Less than 24 hours ago he was fine and alive next to us,” he told VOA. “And then, the fire started.” … Read more
New Delhi- India’s formal request to Bangladesh for the extradition of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India after she was ousted in largely student-led protests, poses a diplomatic puzzle for New Delhi, analysts say. Has gone. Following the departure of Hasina, a close ally of New Delhi during her 15-year rule in … Read more
Islamabad — Richard Grenell, a close confidant of US President-elect Donald Trump, has attracted substantial media and political attention in Pakistan due to his frequent social media posts advocating the release of the country’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The situation deteriorated on 26 November when the Pakistani government took violent action in Islamabad to … Read more
Islamabad — The Pakistani Taliban on Saturday claimed an overnight attack on an army post near the border with Afghanistan, which intelligence officials said killed 16 soldiers and seriously injured five others. A senior intelligence official told AFP on condition of anonymity that the siege began after midnight and lasted about two hours as about … Read more