Geneva: The World Health Organisation and a Norwegian official said emerging powers among G20 countries — including China, Brazil and India — are being pressed to contribute urgent financing and COVID-19 vaccines for the COVAX dose-sharing facility, Ahead of the G7 summit this week, wealthy countries
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that Pakistan has refused to give its military bases to the US amid the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan. In an interview, FM Qureshi said Pakistan wants a stable Afghanistan, but there are some elements who do not
New Delhi: Between April 1 last year and June 5 this year — a period that saw India battling two waves of Covid-19 — 3,621 children were orphaned, 26,176 lost either parent and 274 were abandoned, India’s National Commission for Child Rights (NCPCR) said in
Brussels: The European Union is aware of the nuclear material proliferation incident in India, Peter Stano, the lead spokesperson for the External Affairs of the European Union has said during an interview with Geo News. "All we can say at the moment is that the EU
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President and ex-IIOJK Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has sought intervention by the United Nations to address brazen human rights violations by Indian forces in the territory. Mehbooba Mufti in a tweet said, “The United Nations had to step in as India’s
Srinagar: National Conference (NC) Vice President Omar Abdullah has said the economy of the territory is on the “brink of collapse” as every sector has suffered losses in the last two years. Addressing a meeting of the party’s constituency in-charges of north Kashmir’s Baramulla District at
Colleville: When the sun rises over Omaha Beach, revealing vast stretches of wet sand extending towards distant cliffs, one starts to grasp the immensity of the task faced by Allied soldiers on June 6, 1944, landing on the Nazi-occupied Normandy shore. Several ceremonies were held on
By LIPR Ambassador of Peace Dr. Syed Ali Naqvi The 2019–2021 Jammu and Kashmir lockdown was a security lockdown and communications blackout that had been imposed throughout the Indian-administered union territory of Jammu and Kashmir following the revocation of Article 370 which lasted until February 2021,
London: Queen Elizabeth was one of the first people to be informed of the birth of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's baby daughter. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who named their bundle of joy after the Queen, telephoned the British monarch right after her birth. “The
London: The Delta variant of the coronavirus is estimated to be 40 percent more transmissible than the Alpha variant that caused the last wave of infections in the UK, Britain’s health minister said. But people who have received two doses of vaccine, should be equally protected