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Pakistan regrets India’s decision to postpone Kartarpur meeting

Islamabad: Pakistans Foreign Office spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal said Pakistan regrets India’s decision to postpone the next scheduled Kartarpur Corridor meeting between the two sides at Wagah border on April 2. “Pakistan regrets the Indian decision to postpone the upcoming Kartarpur meeting, jointly agreed by both sides on 14 March 2019. The meeting was to […]

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220 Palestinian children in ‘inhumane’ Israel jails

Gaza: There are 220 Palestinian minors in Israeli jails, including eight girls, Director of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club (PPC) Qaddoura Fares said . Israeli raids to detain Palestinian children are carried out on a daily basis, PPC durector Fares explained. According to Fares, these Palestinian childrens suffer “harsh and inhumane conditions” in Israeli jails. “Prisons, […]

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Nawaz Sharif released from Kot Lakhpat Jail

  LAHORE: Former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif reached his home in Jati Umra Tuesday night to a warm welcome by his daughter Maryam, and brother Shehbaz Sharif. Sharif was released late night from the Kot Lakhpat Jail following the Pak Supreme Court’s decision to grant him bail earlier in […]

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China opposes US decision to recognise Israel’s sovereignty over Golan Heights

Beijing : A day after the US recognised Israel’s sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights , several countries including China have condemned the decision. CTGN quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Lu Kang as saying ” China opposes changing the status quo of Golan Heights through unilateral behaviour,” calling for the avoidance of escalating regional tensions. […]

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Islamabad HC orders state to take custody of Ghotki sisters

Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday ordered the state to ensure protection and take over the custody of two underage sisters from Sindh, who were allegedly forcibly converted from Hinduism and married to Muslim men. Raveena and Reena from Daharki in Ghotki district of Sindh had approached the IHC a day earlier seeking […]

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Israel begins strikes against Hamas in Gaza in response to rocket attack

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  Gaza : Israel has begun striking Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in response to a rocket attack that injured a British-Israeli family. The military confirmed that it had started a bombardment of the territory after an overnight blast in the Mishmeret farming community, north of the city of Kfar Saba, which left seven […]

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Nikah Khwan among seven arrested in Hindu sisters marriage case

  Islamabad: Police have detained at least seven people, including a Nikah Khwan (marriage officiator), suspected of involvement in the alleged abductions, forced conversions from Hindusim to Islam, and underage marriages of two minor sisters reported in Ghotki Sindh, The Dawn reported. On Saturday, the Pakistani government took notice of the incident after two separate […]

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NZ orders top-level inquiry into mosque massacres

Wellington:  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday ordered an independent judicial inquiry into the Christchurch mosque attacks, asking whether police and intelligence services could have prevented the March 15 attack. As per the  AFP , Ardern said a royal commission — the most powerful judicial probe available under New Zealand law — was […]

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Pakistan willing to take steps towards nuclear non-proliferation if India does same: DG ISPR

Rejected India's claims that Pakistan used US-made F-16 to down Indian aircraft in late February

Islamabad:  Pakistan is willing to take steps towards non-prolif eration of nuclear arms, but this would be possible only if India does the same, Pakistan military spokesperson Major General Asif Ghafoor told Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik in an interview . Pakistan is ruling out the possibility of using its nuclear weapons and sees them […]

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Pak Minister hits back at Sushma Swaraj for remarks over Hindu girls abduction

New Delhi : Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry, responding to IEA Minister Sushma Swaraj, said Prime Minister Imran Khan’s ‘Naya Pakistan’ was not Modi’s India, after she sought details from the Indian envoy in Pakistan on the reported abduction and forced conversion of two Hindu teenage girls in Sindh. “Mam its Pakistan’s internal […]

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