Washington, D.C: The World Kashmir Awareness Forum (WKAF), a Washington-based advocacy group, rented digital advertising trucks in Washington – demanding the release of Khurram Pervez, Yasin Malik and other political prisoners. The electronic screens on the trucks carry messages such as: “Free Yasin Malik”; “Free Khurram
Rajasthan: A 19-year-old man from India's Rajhastan was arrested for allegedly raping his mentally challenged cousin who is a minor, India Today reported. The incident occurred in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district. Reportedly, he assaulted the girl while she was playing outside her house. Initially, the victim's family tried
Qaisar Mansoor India is planning to host the 2023 meetings of the G-20 and its Ministry of External Affairs has already issued directives to the authorities in the occupied territory to ensure necessary arrangements. Indian Illegally Occupied Kashmir is an internationally recognised “disputed” territory between Islamabad and
Ecoust-Saint-Mein: For more than a century, the British soldier lay in an anonymous grave, one of so many unidentified victims buried beneath the killing fields of World War I. But now, his headstone finally bears a name: 2nd Lt. Osmund Bartle Wordsworth — a great-great-nephew of
United Nations: The number of school-aged children requiring educational support living in several crisis impacted countries, has grown from an estimated 75 million in 2016, to 222 million today, a new UN report revealed. The UN global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, Education
London: Talks to end the rail strike have resumed as train services in Britain continue to be disrupted. Millions of people were affected on Tuesday after rail workers walked out in the largest strike in decades. Strikes are not being held on Wednesday, but only 60%
Vienna: Suechi Kido was five years old when he lived through the bombing of Nagasaki. This week he has been in Vienna to meet the architects of a new treaty that seeks to abolish nuclear weapons. For the first time since the UN Treaty on the
Kabul: An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 killed at least 950 people in Afghanistan early on Wednesday, officials said, adding that at least 610 of people were injured and the toll is likely to rise as information trickles in from remote mountain villages. The quake struck about
London: Experts fear an intensification of anti-Muslim rhetoric in France after substantive right-wing breakthroughs cut the government’s majority in the National Assembly. Despite a comfortable win in April’s presidential vote, Emmanuel Macron witnessed his governing centrist party Ensemble drop from 350 to 245 seats, well short
By Shahid Farooq Abbasi LIPR Ambassador of Peace Pakistan and Afghanistan are among each other’s prime trading partners. Nonetheless, an agreement was signed in 2010 known as Pakistan-Afghanistan Transit Trade Agreement to strengthen trade relations and facilitate Afghan transit trade through Pakistan, implementation has been mixed,