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NEW YORK, 3rd December, 2022 (WAM) - The UN Security Council issued a press statement condemning in "the strongest terms" Friday's terrorist attack on the Pakistani embassy in Kabul that targeted the Head of the Mission and called for ensuring the safety of diplomatic and consular premises. The 15-member C

Washington [US] December 3 (ANI): The United States declared four leaders of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as Pakistani Taliban, as global terrorists on December 1, Thursday. The US added that it would use all its srength and resources to bring them to justice, The Dawn reported quoting a source from Pakistan. The Dawn report further quoted […]

Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick said they are looking at tightening the rules on student visas to get the numbers down.

Kabul [Afghanistan], December 3 (ANI): Iran is using former Afghan soldiers for their military force and they are also being sent to fight in Syria alongside Ukraine, said Taliban's acting minister for refugees and repatriation, Khalil Rahman Haqqani on Friday, TOLOnews reported. "I have shared this issue with them (Iranian authorities), Afghans have […]

Kabul [Afghanistan], December 3 (ANI): In Afghanistan, the Taliban continue to torture and detainment forcefully security officials who had worked under the previous government, because of which the life of these officials has become miserable, according to a report in the Afghan Diaspora Network (ADN). The Taliban took over Afghanistan after US and NATO […]

New York [US], December 3 (ANI): The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) condemned the terrorist attack on the Pakistan embassy in the capital city of Afghanistan. "The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 2 December 2022, where the Head of Mission came […]

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- UN Security Council on Friday condemned "in the strongest terms" what it called a "terrorist attack" on the Pakistani embassy in Afghanistan, while stressing the principle of the inviolability of diplomatic premises. Pakistani ambassador to Afghanistan has survived unscathed a gun attack by unknown armed men at the […]

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned a gun attack on Pakistan's embassy in the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul. - Politics news - In a statement on Friday, Nasser Kanaani expressed concern about the continued terror attacks against innocent citizens of Afghanistan and condemned the attack on Pakistan's embassy, […]

FacebookTweetPinLinkedInEmailSpeakers at a session on the second day of the Annual Urdu Conference were unanimous in their opinion that though it had been a downhill journey for the Urdu journalism, it was to stay. They called for improving the professional standards of Urdu journalism and infuse new ideas, blood and technology to bring it on a par with the […]

Islamabad [Pakistan], December 3 (ANI): For the third time in a row, Pakistan has topped the list of nations at the highest risk of experiencing mass killings, according to the latest assessment by the US think-tank Early Warning Project. Pakistan faces multiple security and human rights challenges, including increasing violence by the Tehreek-e-Taliban […]

Beijing responded after Washington's top diplomat accused China of preparing a military build-upChina has called on the US to drop its "coercive diplomacy" after a senior US official suggested Beijing poses a threat to the "rules-based international order," pointing out Washington's long history of aggressive foreign policies.Speaking during a Friday

white house - VOA White House correspondent Paris Huang spoke with John Kirby, National Security Council (NSC) Coordinator for Strategic Communications, on Friday about protests in China, the Chinese military, Taiwan, South Korea, and the Russian war in Ukraine.The following transcript has been edited for clarity.VOA: We'll start with the protests happening […]

Islamabad [Pakistan], December 3 (ANI): Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan's (TTP) rebellious activities and the extortion cases has increased in Pakistan. Reportedly, The banned outfit group, TTP is extorting money from influential and wealthy people in Pakistan with numbers having a 93 code indicating an Afghan SIM […]

LOS ANGELES -- New Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 accounted for over 60 percent of new COVID-19 cases in the United States in the latest week, according to estimates released Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. BQ.1.1 was estimated to make up about 31.9 percent of circulating variants this week, and BQ.1 was estimated to make […]

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's chief diplomat in Afghanistan survived an assassination attempt Friday, but his security guard was critically injured.Sources say Charge d'affaires Ubaid-ur-Rehman Nizamani was on a routine afternoon walk on his residential lawn inside the sprawling embassy compound when unknown gunmen from a nearby building opened fire on him. The […]

ABU DHABI, 2nd December, 2022 (WAM) -- The UAE has strongly condemned the attempted assassination of the head of mission of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in the Afghan capital, Kabul, stressing the need to protect diplomatic missions and buildings in accordance with the norms and charters that govern diplomatic

Editor's note: Here is a fast take on what the international community has been up to this past week, as seen from the United Nations perch.UN launches record humanitarian appeal for 2023 The United Nations launched a $51.5 billion appeal Thursday for humanitarian needs in 2023. Needs are the highest they have ever been, with 339 million people in 69 […]

Washington / islamabad - The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the Afghan Taliban's decision to ban FM transmissions of two U.S.-funded news media and urged an immediate resumption of their broadcasts.The Islamist Taliban government's ban went into effect December 1. A day earlier, the Taliban's Ministry of Information and Culture said it had […]

TEHRAN, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman on Friday strongly condemned recent attacks in Afghanistan, saying the continuation of "acts of terror" in the country will lead to its destabilization, which is not in the region's interests, according to semi-official Mehr news agency. Nasser Kanaani made the remarks after two attacks took […]

State Department says Wagner Group threatens "religious freedom" in Africa Alleging that Wagner Group threatened religious freedom in the Central African Republic, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday designated the Russian private military company in the same category as Islamic State (IS, […]