Added on March 20, 2019 Press Trust of India

NZ returns first shooting dead after delay angers families

Christchurch: The bodies of six of the Christchurch massacre victims have been released to their families, New Zealand police said Tuesday, but they warned only a fraction of the 50 people killed had been fully identified, with the delay angering anguished relatives. Muslims whose loved ones were gunned down by an Australian white supremacist at […]

Added on March 20, 2019 Press Trust of India

Pak SC postpones verdict on Sharif’s bail plea till March 26

Islamabad: Pakistan’s Supreme Court Tuesday postponed the verdict of jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s application seeking bail on medical grounds till March 26, according to media reports. Sharif filed an appeal on March 6 against a judgment by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) which on February 25 rejected his bail application on medical grounds […]

Added on March 20, 2019 Press Trust of India

UN received 259 allegations of sexual exploitation, abuse in 2018: Report

United Nations: The UN received a total of 259 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by the staff working in its agencies and their partner organisations in 2018, an increase of more than a hundred in such incidents from the previous year, according to a report presented by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The report, presented […]

Added on March 19, 2019 Press Trust of India

Acid attacks deserve no clemency, says SC

Such attacks are uncivilized, heartless

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said that acid attack is an “uncivilised and heartless crime” which does not deserve any clemency. The apex court observed this while asking two convicts, who have already undergone five year jail for throwing acid on a 19-year-old girl in 2004, to pay Rs 1.5 lakh each as additional […]

Added on March 19, 2019 Press Trust of India

Engage in dialogue to establish peace, China tells India-Pakistan

Beijing: China said on Monday that tensions between India and Pakistan following the Pulwama terrorist attack would figure in the first strategic dialogue between Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday. Qureshi is visiting China, days after Beijing for the fourth time blocked a bid in the United Nations […]

Added on March 19, 2019 Press Trust of India

Indo-Pak tensions: UAE played important role in trimming down hostiles, says envoy

New Delhi: The UAE played an important role in reducing tensions between India and Pakistan after Indian jets struck a terrorist training camp in Balakot, the Gulf nations ambassador here said Monday. Ahmed Al Banna, however, clarified the UAE did not mediate between the two countries and that the aim of its efforts was to […]

Added on March 19, 2019 KV News

Pak fighter jets carry out off-runway operations on highways

Islamabad: Pakistan Air Force’s fighter jets on Monday carried out take-off and landing sorties from highways as part of its operational readiness, an official statement said. Pakistan has maintained high-level of alertness since the Indian Air Force carried out a counter-terror operation, hitting the biggest JeM training camp in Balakot, deep inside Pakistan on February […]

Added on March 17, 2019 Press Trust of India

Pak Army claims shooting down ‘spying’ quadcopter

Islamabad: Pakistan Army on Saturday claimed that it shot down a “spying” Indian quadcopter along the Line of Control. Army spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor claimed that the quadcopter had intruded some 150 metres inside Pakistan side of the LoC. “Pakistan Army troops shot down an Indian spying quadcopter in Rakhchikri Sector along Line of […]

Added on March 17, 2019 Press Trust of India

Focused on pressing Pak to take sustained actions against terror: US

Washington: The Trump administration is now focused on pressing Pakistan to take “sustained and irreversible” actions against terrorist groups operating from its soil, a senior American diplomat has said. Recently, tensions between India and Pakistan escalated after a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed killed 40 CRPF personnel in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district […]

Added on March 17, 2019 Press Trust of India

Pak high commissioner offers prayers at Ajmer Sharif

New Delhi: Pakistan High Commissioner to India Sohail Mahmood offered prayers at the Ajmer Sharif Dargah in Rajasthan on Saturday, where the 807th Urs festival is currently underway. The Urs is an annual festival held at the dargah to commemorate the death anniversary of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti. Mahmood presented the traditional chadar on behalf […]